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accommodation for the rearing and preserving of birds, but also take 
great interest in their welfare. It is, therefore, part of my plan to 
point out what new and interesting birds, according to the experience 
of the Zoological Society, will breed, and are capable of acclimatisa¬ 
tion in this country—many of them may almost be said to have been 
partially acclimatised—^but still, T give as full a list as I have been 
able to get together, and in each instance I give the authority of the 
Zoological Gardens. I have not included the various foreign song¬ 
birds, which, however, might well be included in our category, as 
they afford occupation and amusement to many thousands of English 
men and women. 
And first as regards the Pheasants, we must mention the Cheer 
(Catreus wallichi ).—Being presented to her Majesty the Queen, it 
ived for several yeai-s in the Royal Gardens at Buckingham Palace, 
and there is, therefore, every prospect of the present birds doing well 
n the Society's establishment. 
The ^loNAL (Lophophoims impeyanus), —The rich beauty of its 
plumage, its size, and the grotesqueness of its actions at particular 
periods, are equally remarkable ; and when we add that it seems to 
bo extremely apt to endure the conditions of co3ifinement; that it 
breeds without difficulty under that disadvantage in this country; 
that it is perfectly capable of bearing the severest rigour of our 
winter, it certainly appears that the introduction of this mountain 
bird into the forests of Scotland is not only desirable, but ought ere 
long to be accomplished.* 
The “ Phasanus Versicolor,” from Japan. The Torquatus, from 
China. It has been i)roved that both these birds mil cross with our 
own idieasants, and produce hybrids of a greater size than either of 
the parents, and of a most beautiful plumage. 
Continuing the phe;isants. I am enabled, through the kindness of 
Mr. Leadbeater, to exhibit skins of the following beautiful birds :— 
The PucRASS (Peiicrasia Macrolophia)j the horned tragophon (a 
most desirable species for breeding), the Kaleoe (Etiphrocomus 
alboceratm), the Snow Partridge (Tetroa/jalkis lUmalayensisJj all 
from the Himalayan range, and which would do well if we could 
procure them, and this is by no means impossible. 
The Peacock Pheasant (PolypUction ckinguis ).—Two pairs 
were transmitted in 1857, from the aviaries of the Babu Rajendra 
Mullick, of Calcutta, and the species having bred more than once in 
the collection of the late Earl of Derby, it is extremely desirable that 
this loss should be rephiced. 
* Mr. Gould has kindly lent beautiful skins of these two birds for exhibi- 
bition, well as of their hybrids with the common pheasant. 
