INDEX 



Abiks Excelsa, see Fir, Spruce 



Pectinata, see Fir, Silver 



Acorns, as food, 15 ; analysis, 168 

 "Acorns and Straying Pheasants," CaOT«- 



^«<;»^r (quoted), 16 

 Adult birds, feeding, 215 

 Afghan Delimitation Commission, dis- 

 covery of Prince of Wales Pheasant, 41 

 Afghanistan, Prince of Wales Pheasant in, 



40 

 Aitchison, Dr, on Prince of Wales 



Pheasant, 42 

 Albania, Common Pheasant in, 31 

 Albinism, 24, 76 



Albino Pheasant, 24 ; hybrids, 76 

 Amherst, Lady, Prince of Wales Pheasant 



introduced by, go, 92 

 Amherst Pheasant, 90 et seq. ; hybrids, 



88,90 

 Appliances, disinfection of, 245 ; portable 



(ill.), 151 

 Argtis Giganteus, see Argus Pheasant, 

 Great 



Grayi, see Argus Pheasant, Small 



Argus Pheasant, 98 etseq. ; in Europe, 103 ; 

 hybrids, 100 



, Great, 98, 100 



, Small, 98 ; in British Museum, 106 ; 



description, 105 

 Artificial Incubation, see Incubation, 



Artificial 

 Asia Minor, origin of Pheasant, 22 

 Aviaries, disinfection, 245; (ill.)> 233; 



management, 129 

 Badger, 210 

 Banford, Thomas, on Straying Pheasants, 



222 

 Barberry, in coverts, 17 

 Barred-backed Pheasant, see Elliot's 

 (Barred-backed) Pheasant and Hume's 

 (Barred-backed) Pheasant 

 Bar-tailed Pheasant, see Reeves' Pheasant 

 Bartlett, A. D., on Scemmerring's 



Pheasant, 58 

 Beech, for chalk soil, 15 ; as roosting- 



place, 14 

 Beech-mast, as food, 15 

 Beilby, George, on high-flying, 235 

 Birds Observed in the Ionian Islands 



(quoted), 31 

 Birds of Asia (quoted), 45, 62, 91 

 Birds of Europe (quoted), 32 

 Birds of Northamptonshire (quoted), 22, 



203 

 Black-necked Pheasant, scarcity, 22 

 Black's Hawk trap, 199 

 Blood Pheasant, no 



Blood Pheasant, GeofFry's, i lo 



, Northern, iii 



Bohemia, Common Pheasant in, 32 



Bohemian Pheasant, 75 



Bowels, Inflammation of, 270 



Box, in coverts, 21 



Bramble, in coverts, 17 



Breeding, effect of alien blood, 44 



Briar, in coverts, 21 



British Birds (quoted), 172 



British Game Birds and Wild Fowl, on 

 coverts, 18 ; Pheasant described, 28 ; 

 on Ring-necked Pheasant, 23 



Broods, see Chicks 



Broody Hens, selection of, 150 



Broom, in coverts, 17 



Buckwheat, in coverts, 220 



Calophasis Hdmi^, see Hume's (Barred- 

 backed) Pheasant 



Campbell, Sir Archibald, Amherst Pheasant 

 introduced by, 90, 92 



Canis Domestica, see Dog 



Canker, misuse of word, 260 



Carrion Crow, see Crow, Carrion 



Cat, 211 



Chalk soil, Beech trees on, 15 



Chicks, feeding and management, 1 58 et 

 seq. ; removal to coverts, 182 



China, Pheasant in, 49, 82, 92 



Chinese Pheasant, 43 et seq. ; in aviary and 

 covert, 46 ; hybrids, 23 ; origin, 47 ; 

 relation to Ring-necked, 68 



, Ringless, 78 



, Ring-necked, introduction, 24 ; re- 

 lation to Common Pheasant, 23 



Chlorine Gas, as disinfectant, 248 



Circus Cineraceous, see Hawk 



Coccidiosis, 270 



Colchis River, see Phasis River 



Common Pheasant, 22 et seq. 



Coops, 158 



Copper Pheasant, see Scemmerring's 

 Pheasant 



Corvus Comix, see Crow, Hooded 



Corone, see Crow, Carrion 



Frugilegus, see Rook 



Monedula, see Jackdaw 



Coverts, adult birds in, 215 ; construction, 

 13 ; in Gloucestershire, 20 ; in Norfolk, 

 2q; removing chicks to, 182; in Suffolk, 

 20 ; trees suitable for, 14, 17, 21 



Cramp, 273 



Creagh, E. F., on Reeves' Pheasant, 52 



Crop, impaction of, 263 



Crossopttlon Auritum, see Eared Pheasant 



Mantchuricum, see Eared Pheasant, 



Manchurian 



28s 



