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Title: British birds with their nests and eggs
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Butler, Arthur G. (Arthur Gardiner), 1844-1925 Frohawk, Frederick William, 1861-1946
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: London, Brumby & Clarke
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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z s < s UJ 0^ I CU The Pheasant. 5 The Chinese species was also introduced into St. Helena, by the Portuguese, in1513, and still flourishes under protection, although in a country so totally differentfrom its original locality. Naturally the Pheasant is a forest bird, inhabiting the margins of the woodeddistricts and coming into the open country to feed. The Pheasant closely resemblesin its internal structure, the common fowl, and, like it, is an omnivorous feeder.Grain, roots, berries, herbage, fruits, and insects, are all devoured. Ants eggs,in localities where they are prevalent, form the favourite food of the young.There are few berries, fruits, or seeds that it will not eat, acorns and beech mastsforming a large proportion of its dietary during the latter part of the 3ear. Thequantity of food taken by it is very great. Thompson, the natural historian ofIreland, took thirty-seven acorns from the crop of one bird. Although injuriousto the agriculturist by feeding upon grain, its

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