2 JANUARY 1942, Page 13

FANCY PHEASANTS

SIR,—The Duke of Bedford has misread my paragraph on fancy pheasants. I implied—or meant to imply—that the Reeves, unlike the Amherst, is a high flier ; and I had in my mind's eye a very high resplendent bird flying over a coppice on the Woburn border. A neighbouring copse held only Amhersts, which in local belie, do not consent to a mutual relation with other pheasants, perhaps because, like the inefficient boxer in Great Expectations, they make a great