His father's modest dwelling had disappeared, and in its place stood a magnificent mansion, around which stretched a park with pavilions, canals, willow-trees, golden pheasants, and little bridges.

He had (saith Lampridius) tame pheasants, ducks, partridges, peacocks, and some 20,000 ring-doves and pigeons.

Experienced pheasant and poultry breeders state that by the use of this once a week, gapes are effectually prevented.

My old friend, the one-legged cock pheasant, who for the third year in succession has contrived to escape our annual battue, comes up to my feet to take the bread I offer.

In passing you seem to be a bit of a free forester yourself, dancing in among my nesting pheasants.

But these things are trifles when the dish is a plump pheasant, jugged hare, brown partridges, or troutperhaps not exactly in seasonas the chance may be; or a couple of boiled fowls, or a turkey, or some similar toothsome morsel.

Truly that was an exciting week's journey, I can promise you, dodging up and down canals, expecting every moment to run round a corner into a rebel campyet fortunately never doing itin fact, doing nothing at all more exciting than listening to the cries of startled pheasants.

But his call was drowned in the sound of their voices, which were echoing through the weeds, much to the annoyance, no doubt, of the stately pheasants who were not accustomed to human sounds like these.

Among the birds observed, black and white cockatoos, swamp pheasants, and crows were the most numerous.

He 'didn't want to be bothered,' he said; he maintained that he 'could make more money in ten minutes than he could save in a year by checking the housekeeper's accounts'; he 'could live on coffee and pie,' but if he chose to hire the chef of the Cafe Anglais to cook for him at five thousand dollars a year he 'didn't want to know the price of a truffled pheasant or a chaudfroid of ortolans.'

The markings of the peacock and the argus pheasant come out upon their immensely developed secondary tail-feathers or wing-plumes; the metallic hues of sun-birds, or humming-birds, show themselves upon their highly specialized crests, gorgets, or lappets.

" "Especially when you suspect most of them to be only wooden pheasants, set up to delude poachers.

BROILED PHEASANT (a Breakfast or Luncheon Dish).