The Foreign Game Introduction Program has required extensive travel in foreign lands, and close working relations 

 with native peoples, in the search for birds adaptable to game-vacant regions in the United States. Francolin grouse 

 trappers in India with tools of the trade — nets, rope for dragging net, and carrying basket (top) ; gray francolin, 

 a game bird adaptable to cultured lands in semiarid regions (bottom left) ; and black francolin, a species apparently 

 suitable to forests and farmlands of the humid South, in holding pen (bottom right). All species of foreign game 

 are carefully evaluated as potential pests, and held 2 months in quarantine for assurance against disease introduction 

 before release. (Photos by Gardiner Bump) 



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