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reared, we see no reason why they may not he 
successfully introduced, and abundantly supply any 
country in the world. 
The following directions for rearing them under 
hens, have been, we know, adopted with success. A 
sufficient number of eggs being provided, put them 
under a hen that has kept her nest for three or four 
days ; and if two or three hens happen to sit on the 
same day, an opportunity will be afforded of shifting 
the good eggs. At the end of ten or twelve days, 
examine, and throw away those that are had, and 
set the same hen or hens again, if sitting hens 
should be numerous. The hens having set their 
full time, such of the young Pheasants as are already 
hatched, must he put into a basket with a piece of 
flannel, till the hen has done hatching. Then place 
the whole brood under a frame, with a net over it, 
and a covered place for the hen, so as to confine her, 
hut leave the young Pheasants at liberty to leave or 
return to her at pleasure. Their food must consist 
of boiled eggs cut small, boiled milk and bread, 
alum curd, and ants' eggs, — a little of each, and 
often. Rice may he also given, softened by boiling, 
and instead of ants' eggs, which in some places are 
not easily procured, or, in addition to them, maggots 
from decayed flesh may be used. Artificial ants' 
eggs may be easily made, composed of flour, beaten 
up with an egg and shell together, and the pellets 
rubbed between the fingers to a proper size. 
After two or three days, they will be acquainted 
with the call of their foster-mother, and they may 
then be allowed to run upon a grass-plot, or else- 
where ; the edge of a corn-field is very desirable, 
YOL. II. H 
