Game preservers are experimenting with a great number of pheasants
; and some species are found to be singularly vagrant for the race. If anyone discovers one of them far from any place where pheasants are bred, news of the appear. ance would be valuable to students as well as sportsmen. It is interesting to remember that many zoos were at first formed by naturalization authorities, as such names as the " Jardia d'acelimatation " indicate. The founders of our own Zoo hoped great things of the guinea fowl. It was believed even lately that it was a help in inducing Mongolian pheasants not to stray ; and an occasional game-preserver kept a flock in the woods. The fashion is, I think, as good as extinct ; and even in the farmyard the guinea fowl is perhaps not so common as it was. It has gone, like Cobbett's Locust tree, or the so-called Wellingtonia, into the list of disappointed hopes.
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