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but the belief in the possibility of obtaining a fertile cross breed between the 
pheasant and the domestic fowl is so prevalent, that we felt desirous of adducing a 
sufficient number of examples to set the question at rest ; more especially as, in a 
treatise on fowls published only a few years since, these hybrids were said to be 
fertile, not only with pure-bred fowls, but also inte7' se, and their progeny was 
traced through several generations. But we cannot discover any person except the 
writer who was cognizant of the experiments or saw the results that were said to 
have been obtained. 
