Have you seen a pheasant-hen go by? PATOU

About 2.30 o'clock on a May morning a rook begins the grand concert with a solo in G flat; then a cock pheasant crows, or an owl hoots; moorhens begin to stir, and gradually the woodland orchestra works up to a tremendous burst of song, such as is never heard at any hour but that of sunrise.

During the afternoon I shot over the island, and enjoyed some very fair sport; especially with the pheasant-cuckoo,** and quail, large and small, which were numerous: several birds not unlike the so-called crow of the Swan River colonists were seen.

~A Wife Deplores the Absence of Her Husband~ Away the startled pheasant flies, With lazy movement of his wings.

At the same time it must be admitted that he holds a gun fairly straight, and does not disgrace himself when the necessity of slaughtering a friend's pheasants interrupts for a few hours the rehearsals of private theatricals, in company with the friend's wife.

For the people's pleasure and good disport salmon, trout, quail, and pheasant play in front of and through the suburbs of her capitals.

It is a waste of time to discuss philosophy with a man who has no mind above fox-hunting, fishing, pheasant-shooting, and dancing.

His offer was in the interest of pheasant breeders, but the benefit is not confined to that variety of game alone, for it is equally applicable to all gallinaceous birds troubled with this disease.

All this rich country is watered by the Mourgabthe White Wateror its tributaries, and pheasants swarm like crows on the plains of Normandy.

PHEASANT CUTLETS. 1040.

I beg my best compliments to my lady, and my best wishes that every pheasant egg and peacock egg may produce as many colours as a harlequin-jacket.