Excerpt from Pheasant Keeping for Amateurs: A Practical Handbook on the Breeding, Rearing, and General Management of Aviary Pheasants I have never been a game-preserver in the common acceptation of the word; but if I were, the height of my ambition would be to see a score or two of those truly majestic birds, -reeves' (an adult male is fully 6ft. Long), feeding from the home coverts towards my windows; he is an ornament to any grounds, and as easy to rear as a chicken. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.