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Identifier: americangamebird00grin (find matches)
Title: American game-bird shooting
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938
Subjects: Game and game-birds Hunting
Publisher: New York, Forest and stream publishing company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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amette Valley, in LynnCounty, Oregon, where they did well and increasedrapidly. In the late winter or early spring, 1885, animportant importation came to Portland. These wereagain from Consul Denny, and were sent to the peopleof Oregon in care of a sportsmens association of Port-land. They included several species. Efforts weremade to induce the legislature to enact a law protectingthem and to make a small appropriation for their careuntil they could become established. The legislaturelaughed at these requests and treated them with somuch scorn as to create quite a little sympathy for thesportsmens association, and incidentally for the pheas-ants. The owner of Protection Island, in Puget Sound,offered to give the birds a home and protect them ifdesired, and they were turned out there. In 1882 two hundred pairs of English pheasants werebrought to New York from England to stock PierreLorillards game preserve in Monmouth County, N. J.They did well there, and with others imported later by
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A LOOK BACKWARD 519 Pierre Lorillard and Rutherford Stuyvesant and turnedout at various points in New Jersey and along theborder between that State and New York, stocked in alimited way a considerable territory west of the HudsonRiver. In the year 1881, nineteen Chinese pheasants wereimported to Victoria. Vancouver Island, and set freethere, while a law was enacted giving them absoluteprotection for five years. They increased astonish-ingly, so that when the closed time was ended therewas excellent shooting in the neighborhood of Victoria,and it was estimated that during the first season notless than 3,000 pheasants were killed. During thewinter the birds could be seen, sometimes along theroadside and often in the cultivated fields, and wereevidently very abundant. The introduction of the pheasants in Oregon andCalifornia was generally welcomed, and public feelingprotected the birds. It appeared that the climate waswell suited to them. They increased rapidly, and nowfor many years hav

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