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“They are naturally very wild; in_ breeding 
time the cocks are difcovered by the noife they 
make in flapping their wings, which may be heard 
at a great diftance. 
The hen Pheafant makes her neft without any 
afiftance from the cock, at leaft when they are 
in a domeftic ftate, and confined. She ufes 
firaw, leaves, &c. and though it be but coarfely 
made, fhe prefers it to any other that may have 
been provided for her ; however neat and more 
curious it may be than her own, fhe would pull it 
to pieces, and with the materials make one for 
_herfelf. 
She hatches but once in a year in our climate, 
and lays about twelve eggs, one at the diltance 
of two or three days from the other. ‘They are 
much fmaller than the eggs of a Hen, and the 
fhell is as thin as the fhell of a pigeon’s egg. 
She makes her neft on the ground like a Pare 
tridge, and fits twenty or twenty-five days; as 
foon as the little ones are hatched, they begin to 
tun like the young of all gallinaceous birds. : 
When brought up tame they are. fed at firft 
with eggs boiled hard, with bread and lettuce 
leaves minced; they muft not be permitted te 
drink water, or to walk out until the dew is off 
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