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it. The birds, of course, had to be taken from the 
boat, and, no one seeming to know anything about 
them, the sailors finally gave them away along the 
waterfront and some of them were sold to the city 
markets. California never knew of my husband’s 
splendid gift, and the state received no _ benefit 
from it. 
Prof. W. T. Shaw, in his superb book, “The China, or Denny 
Pheasant in Oregon,” says: 
“To know the pheasant well, one must live with 
him throughout the year. He is a bird of moods, in- 
fluenced by shifting conditions and passing seasons, 
in which there are for him, in reality, but two—the 
open and closed. Within a few days after the law says 
no more shooting, he becomes bold and fearless, even 
to the extent of sharing the food of the barnyard fowls 
in winter, though always reserved and suspicious. In 
the brush of the lowlands or from the open meadow, 
comes his two-syllabled call in the stillness of the 
evening twilight. From his roost among the grass or 
sedge tussocks, or the great moss-covered branches 
of an oak, he springs away into the gloom with a 
startled cry. Throughout the long 
dry summer the young are reared by 
the female, until the days of autumn 
come, the male meanwhile frequent- 
ly greeting you by the roadside with 
a glance of curiosity mingled with 
reserve, standing a moment, erect, 
in all his brightness of coloration, 
ducking an instant later to steal 
silently away among the grass.’’ 
Habits 
What is said of the Chinese pheasant will 
apply equally to the English Ring-neck and 
English pheasant, excepting that the Chinese 
pheasant is more wild than the other pheasants 
named, more beautiful and gamey, therefore 
best adapted to restocking depleted game fields. 
Thousands have been liberated throughout the 
United States during the past five or six years, 
and in every instance they have become so suc- 
cessfully acclimatized as to stand the most vig- 
orous annual onslaughts, retarded only by the 
z re : “hace eaverv fix = r Mh Pheasant 
pot hunter who bags every last thing that in Breeding 
comes in his way, from English sparrows to Season 
Wattles 
game wardens.” Distended 
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