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Some Gorgeous Plicmunls. 
some of tho a1x>ve species would make a grand display, as 
well as supplying unlimited interest and pleasure. 
The runs for Pheasants should be well diaiiied and not 
overcrowded — if these two points are attended to, the voidings 
frequently gathered u}), an occasional digging and re-:-odding 
will keep them fresh for quite long periods. The runs sliouhl 
contain some spreading evergreens and bushes, for as many 
Pheasants are hill birds and cannot endure heat, shade must 
be provided. 
Pheasants must be watched at pairing time, for the 
vice of savagery is common to many species, and the move- 
ments of really vicious cocks must l>e hampered in some degree, 
either by cut wings, or hobbling the legs with a cord, leaving 
the hens full and free use of wings and feet. 
Many hens do not show much inclination to sit, and 
the common practice is to collect the eggs and place them 
under Silky or Bantam hens, or to use some incubator and 
rearers. 
My friend and fellow avicultui'ist, Dr. Lovell-Keays, 
rears Golden Pheasants very successfully, hatching the eggs 
under an ordinary broody hen, and when hatched putting the 
hen into an ordinary coop on his lawn or elsewhere, the chicks 
running about and picking insects from the grass; feeding 
them at first on insectile mixture. Apart from food treating 
them as domestic poultry chicks. 
Pheasant chicks need mucii animal food in the earlier 
stages, but success can usually be attained with custard, ants' 
"eggs" and gentles; also game meals, canary and millet 
seed, and greenfood (lettuce, etc.), must be liberally supplied 
even to those occupying grass runs. 
Adult Pheasants do well on a general mixture of small 
cereals ana seeds, with gamo meal, and an abundance of green - 
food. In the winter when greenfood fails, various roots, such 
as mangel-wurzel may be given, but they should not be left 
out in the open on frosty nights. The better plan is to supply 
regularly what will be eaten up, leaving the birds the healthy 
exercise of foraging about tlieii' runs, between the mornuig 
and evening meals. 
