PHEASANTS. 
Reeves’s (or barred-tailed pheasants). 
We have thoroughly acclimatized the common pheasant 
from Western Asia, the ring-necked pheasant from Southern 
China, the green-breasted pheasant from Japan, then why 
not the Reeves’s pheasant from North China ? It is cer- 
tainly the largest, finest, and most beautiful of all the true 
pheasants, and would be a most desirable and magnificent 
addition to our game preserves. 
Domestication and acclimatization are two very different 
states. Animals may be acclimatized without, in the least, 
becoming domesticated, and the animals already domesti- 
cated may be acclimatized, that is to say, we may trans- 
2Dort the domesticated animals to a new country, and, with 
proper attention to their wants, we may succeed in estab- 
lishing them, and they are in time adapted to the changed 
condition and thrive ; instances of this kind are common 
enough, viz. sheep, cattle, pigs, and poultry in Australia ; 
horses, cattle, and pigs in America and elsewhere. The 
introduction of animals from one country to another is 
very common, and the success attending such introduction 
well known. But when the question is asked. Have any 
wild species that have been introduced into a country 
become domesticated within the time of recorded events ? 
an answer in the negative must be given ; on the other 
side, we have no end of instances of domestic animals being 
introduced to new countries, where, for want of care and 
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