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Pheasants, 
among them the long-tailed Reeve’s Pheasant, P. 
reevesi, to a small extent introduced to the coverts of 
England, the splendid P. mongolicus,&VLA. others. We 
see in this case also the nearest allies of the Pheasants, 
such as the Monals, Lophophorus, of the Indian 
mountains, and others, the Gold and Silver Pheasants 
having partly been passed already in the former case. 
Here too are many exti’aordinary hybrids. 
Case 111. on this side 
contains the Bustards, with only one real British 
species, the Great Bustard, Otis tarda, now extirpated 
in Great Britain, since the extension of high cultiva- 
tion, greater population, and the introduction of 
improved agricultural implements, such as the various 
steam-engines, corn-drills, horse-hoes, and others, made 
the country unfitted for this large bird with its shy 
nature, every one of their big nests being now easily 
discovered and generally destroyed, seeing that they 
used to breed in the widely extended fields of winter 
corn. The Little Bustard, Otis tetrax, was never 
more than a straggler to the British Islands, and 
0, macqueeni has been shot once. 
Besides the Bustards, we see here the Ibis, Cranes, 
and Plovers, among them the much-esteemed Golden 
Plover and our familiar Common Plover, Lapwing, or 
Pewit, Vanellus vanellus, of which rare and interesting 
