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the Spring, and hatch twelve or fourteen at a 

 brood, wl^h keep in a company till towards the 

 following Spring. Many have attempted to 

 raife the young ones, and to tame them, 

 but to no purpofe. When hatched under a 

 hen they efcape into the woods foon after they 

 are hatched, where they either find means to fub- 

 fift or perifh." 



In order further to illuflrate the hiftory af 

 this bird, I wrote to Mr. Brooke, of Maryland, 

 in North- America, May 1752, now in Lojidon^ 

 to defire the favour of him to give me what ac- 

 account he coiild of the bird called a Pheafant^ 

 in the provinces of Pennfylvania, Maryland, &c* 

 and he obliged me with a fatisfadory anfwer, by 

 letter, from which I have made the following 

 extract, relating to the hiflory of this ruifed 

 Grous or Pheafant. 



The Pheafant breeds in all parts of Mary- 

 land, fome countries on the weftern Ihore ex- 

 cepted. They lay their eggs in nefts they 

 make in the leaves, either by the fide of faller^ 

 trees, or the roots of ilanding ones. They lay 



from 



