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Index. 



Pheasants (cont.) : 



Mongolian, 15 (Plate) 



movable pens, 32 



mustard in foods, 133 



natural history, 5 



nests, 8 



nests, searching for, 38 



netting, 124, 125 



new species, suitable for in- 

 troduction, 17 



night coverts, 113 



Old English, 5 



ornamental or fancy species, 

 18 



Oxus, 17 



parasites, 90 



park-lands, 106 



pens, 32 



pens for introducing, 22 



Persian, 14, 17 



Phasianus amherstice, 18 



P. chrysomelasy 17 



P. colchicus, 5 (Plate) 



P. ellioti, 18 



P. gmeliniy 17 



P. mongolicus, 15 (Plate) 



P. -persicus, 14 



P. principals, 15 (Plate) 



P. reevesii) 12 (Plate) 



P. reevesii hybrid, Plate 



P. shawi, 17 



P. scemmerringii, 1 8 (Plate) 



P. strauchi, 17 



P. talischensis, 14 



P. tarimensis, 14 . 



P. torquatus, 5 (Plate) 



P. torquatus hybrid, Plate 



P. versicolor, 9, n, 36 

 (Plate) 



pied, n, 131 



poaching, 115, 124 



polygamous, 7 



Prince of Wales', 15 (Plate) 



proportion of hens to cock, 



7> 2 3> 3 6 > '3 

 protection, 115 

 rats, 117 

 rattling sound made by 



hatching eggs, 39 



Pheasants (cont.) : 



rearing, 41, 51 



rearing-fields, 55, 86 



Red Worm, 92 



Reeves', 12 (Plate) 



Reeves' Ring - necked 

 (hybrid), Plate 



Resplendent, Plate 



rewards for discovery of 

 nests, 123 



rides, 108 



Ringed, 17 



Ring-necked, 5, 10 (Plate) 



Ring-necked hybrid, Plate 



roofing-felt, 53 



roosting-places, 6 



roup, 99 



runs, 43, 51, 54 



scour, 100 



scrofula, 101 



scurfy legs, 101 



seasons for introducing, 23, 

 28 



sentinel birds, 132 



shrubs for coverts, 104, 105, 

 107, 118 



shy feeders, 76, 83 



Siberian, 14, 17 



Silver, 18, 19 (Plate) 



snaring, 124 



Soemmerring's, 18 (Plate) 



soil, choice of, 57 



species, 5, 9, 12, 17, 18 



spices in foods, 133 



sports derived from cross- 

 ing, ii 



springeing, 124 



stimulants, 132 



suffocation, 97 



sulphate of iron tonic, 89 



sunstroke, 96 



Syngamus trachealis, 92 



Talisch's, 14, 17 



tapeworm, 102 



testing eggs, 48 



times for feeding, 76 



tonic medicine, 89 



Tragopan, 18 



trails of grain, 82 



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