PHEASANTS IN COVERT AND AVIARY 



of any value in game preserves. Mr Shaw in shooting in 

 Eastern Turkestan shot many of this species, which he 

 mistook for P. Colchicus. He brought two male birds back 

 to England, thinking that they would be a valuable addition 

 to the species already existing in this country, and it is due 

 to this fact that the species has been so named. 



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