Pheasants; their natural history and practical management . ed. I have tried the?cross in confinement for years, and never produced one piedbird from it; and before the pied breed were introducedinto the preserves here, we had an abundance of white cocksand white hens, and, believing at that time that the pied wasthe result of p, cross between the white and common pheasant,I used to watch the nides of every white hen, and wassurprised that in no instance was there one pied chick, were white. The explanation of the difficulty of breeding pied birdsirom a white and a coloured parent,
Pheasants; their natural history and practical management . ed. I have tried the?cross in confinement for years, and never produced one piedbird from it; and before the pied breed were introducedinto the preserves here, we had an abundance of white cocksand white hens, and, believing at that time that the pied wasthe result of p, cross between the white and common pheasant,I used to watch the nides of every white hen, and wassurprised that in no instance was there one pied chick, were white. The explanation of the difficulty of breeding pied birdsirom a white and a coloured parent, and the ease with whichring-necks are produced and perpetuated, is soon are derived more or less directly from theP. torquatus, a permanent race, that has a strong tendency toreproduce its like; but white and pied birds are variations, and not even a thoroughly establishedbreed, and therefore are not prepotent in propagating theirlike, but have a strong tendency to throw back to from which they were aiz; o CHAPTEE XI. PHEASANTS ADAPTED TO THE COVERT(CONTINUED).
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