Records oi Hirds n'liich have bred in Caj^iivity. 79 
603.— MIKADO PHEASANT. C. mikado. W.T.P. 
1st |olin>,t(jne. 1913. See A.M. 1915. j66, and Zoo, 1913. 
Hybrids. 
MIKADO PHEASANT x ELLIOTT'S. 
John.stone. See .A.M. 1915, 266. 
<^ 
804.— GOLDEN PHEASANT C hrysoloplius picttis. W.T.P. 
Commonly. 
Hybrid.s. 
GOLDEN X COMMON PHEASANT. 
t\'ale. " In evidence at the S.K. Museum.'' 
X SILVER PHEASANT. ti^arl-Iett. 
X REEVES' PHEASANT. fVale. 
X AMHERST PHEASANT. fVale. 
X Golden Pheasant (Common Pheasant). 
0 
605.— AMHERST PHEASANT C aiulierstiac. W.T.P. 
Zoo, 1904. etc. 
Hybrids. 
AMHERST X COMMON } HEASANT. 
W.T.P. Vale, " in evidence at the S.K. Museum." 
X Amherst (Golden 1 ..easant). 
As a .schoolhoy. it had always been my ainbilioii to keep 
l)ir(ls, probably because they were about the only pet at which I 
had not tried my prentice-hand, but being away from home half 
the year made it impossible — my Cambridge days gave me no 
chance, and it was only when I got married that my opportunity 
came. 
I wonder whether everyone makes the mistakes that I 
n ade when I started. Looking back, with a few years' 
experience behind nie, I wonder that any of iny first acquired 
birds lived, but one learns, and " B.X," certainly helped me, 
To be co)itiiiucd. 
A Retrospect 
By W. a. ]J.\i.\r!RiD(;K. 
