THE POULTRY BOOK. 
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introduced into this country, it has been found necessary subsequently to extirpate 
the entire race, as by their continued persecution they drive away the pheasants 
and other feathered game from the covers in which they are reared. The experiment 
has also been tried of introducing them into some of the more barren moors in 
Ireland ; hut, as might have been expected, the young birds were found to he so 
extremely impatient of cold and dampness, that it was not attended with success. 
