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[A] nide of pheasants are sometimes collected in a very small space, and in the middle of the day conceal themselves very close.
1818, J[ohn] Hassell, “Brentwood”, in Picturesque Rides and Walks, with Excursions by Water, Thirty Miles Round the British Metropolis; Illustrated in a Series of Engravings, Coloured after Nature;, volume II, London: Printed for J. Hassell,, →OCLC, pages 169–170:
[W]e were highly entertained with the antics of two stoats, who had left their hiding places to commence nocturnal depredations; [...] in the course of a few minutes the whirring of a nide of pheasants convinced us these little vermin had marked them as prey.
1833 January, N. O., “Shooting in January”, in The New Sporting Magazine, volume IV, number XXI, London: Published by Baldwin & Cradock,, →OCLC, page 173, column 1:
[I]f a hen pheasant takes to new ground, at such a late period of the season, she may be likely to stay and build her nest there, and thus a nide may be lost in the following October.
1852 May, “Latitat” , “Anecdotes of Foxes”, in The Sportsman, London: Rogerson & Tuxford, →OCLC, page 347:
Reynard [i.e., a fox], in his thieving rambles, one night the summer before last visited the pleasure-gardens in Cornbury Park, and there he found and carried off a hen pheasant while sitting on her nest. The same evening a barn-door hen, with a nide of pheasants also disappeared.
The breeding season of the present year has been favourable to young pheasants. The most glowing accounts are from Devon, Cornwall, some of the Midland counties, and from Yorkshire, where the wild nides are strong and healthy, and keepers have been very successful with the hand-reared stock.
^ From William T Shaw (1908) The China or Denny Pheasant in Oregon: With Notes on the Native Grouse of the Pacific Northwest, Philadelphia, Pa., London: J. B. Lippincott Company, →OCLC, plate 6.
“nide”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
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