Word: pheasants
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...bright leaves of New England autumn crackled crisply underfoot as hunters in Maine and Vermont took to the woods and meadows in search of rabbit and pheasant. In Wisconsin and Oregon the hunt was on for grouse and quail. In Virginia and Maryland, packs of foxhounds were ready for the classic chase. Along the great flyways of the nation, ducks headed south. From California to the Carolinas, observers reported ground-game population on the increase as hunters and dogs prepared for one of the best seasons ever for the U.S.'s third (after fishing and bowling) most popular participation...
...total collection ("I began buying at 14, out of my allowance"), includes some topnotch masterpieces (Tintoretto's Flora, Titian's Portrait of the Admiral Vincenzo Capello, Soutine's Valet de Chambre), as well as some not-so-great works by great masters (Renoir's Pheasant, Derain's Renaissance-style Portrait of Lady Adby), which have good names if not topmost quality...
...Bird. In Deep River, Conn., Ronald G. Hagg, found guilty of swerving his car to kill a pheasant, was fined $50 for 1) using a motor vehicle in hunting, 2) hunting out of season, 3) hunting on Sunday, 4) driving on the wrong side of the road...
...Gauge. In St. John, Kans., Cindy Hobson, 9, asked to name the year's four seasons on a test paper, wrote: "Duck, deer, quail and pheasant...
...Pheasant, Grouse, Quail, and Grey Squirrel Seasons end in Massachusetts today; the archery season for deer opens tomorrow. The bird hunting thus far this fall has been good for Massachusetts. The pheasant season was quite productive, quails were numerous on the Cape, and the grouse kill, always sparse, was surprisingly high...