36 THE NATURAL HISTORY 
the ground. It is necefiary to feed them eben, 
and with little at a time. 
When long confined, they are very apt to are | 
troubled with a kind of infea, which they get rid 
of by throwing the duft among their feathers. 
_ At the age of three months, the young lofe the 
_ feathers of their tails ; at that time they are fick- 
dy and apt to die ; ha are much relieved ad 
ants eggs. 
The Pheafant isa ftupid bird, td taken in fs 
‘veral kinds of fnares, and is faid to think 
itlelf out of all danger when its head is 
hidden, 
“When hunted by a pointer, as foon as it 
perceives the dog, it looks fteadily at him, and 
pives the fowler an appara of hooting i ag, 
with eafe. 
_ An artificial Pheafant, made of wood we painte 
ed, or a piece of red and white cloth, will in- 
— tice him into a fnare. Sometimes he is taken by 
a noofe laid in the path in which he goes morn- 
ing and evening to drink, and fometimes bya 
Hawk or a Falcon. | 
Pheafants are a very ‘diane: food. Heliogas 
bali a Roman emperor, had the extravagance 
to. fee lions with them, which be kept confined. 
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