186 PHEASANT 
In 1880 Mr. Kermode remarks upon the species: ‘ Intro- 
duced at different times, for the amusement of poachers. I 
am told there is still one, which may be seen occasion- 
ally.’ In the revised list he notes, ‘A few preserved,’ but 
in 1901 omits the bird altogether. 
Mr. Crellin tells me that in the north they have fre- 
quently been tried, but get no chance to increase. They 
were, for instance, kept by the late Mr. E. C. Farrant, of 
Ballakillingan, Bishops Powys and Straton, and Mr, Crellin 
himself, all with almost equal want of success. Regard- 
ing the last Bishop’s Court experiment, Bishop Straton, 
in answer to my inquiry, writes me under date of 28th 
December 1904 that very few birds, certainly not more than 
half a dozen, survive there. The Bishop’s head gardener 
tells him that they have been seen in the glen forming 
part of the demesne during last autumn, but he himself has 
seen none since the spring; he attributes the loss of the 
birds chiefly to the unseasonably cold weather which 
several years prevailed in June and July. Within the last 
few years Pheasants introduced at Ballagawne, Rushen, 
have, as Mr. H. Cannell tells me, become extinct. At the 
Nunnery, according to information supplied by Mr, Leigh 
Goldie-Taubman, the late Sir J. 8. Goldie-Taubman had in 
the seventies some Pheasants in the shrubberies surround- 
ing the mansion-house. In the winter of 1872 the family, 
which had wintered in Algeria, was disappointed on 
returning to find that they had disappeared. About 1894 
Mr. L. Goldie-Taubman procured eggs, and hatched out a 
number of young birds, nearly all of which were destroyed 
by getting damp on a night of almost tropical rain. The 
few survivors died before the autumn; the last one, which 
on a Sunday had ventured near a public path through the 
grounds, being seen and stoned to death by boys. 
In 1902 seven hundred and ninety Pheasants were 
