80 AMERICAN GAME BIRD SHOOTING 
and other chaparral, will long protect them, and make 
the work of shooting them very difficult for the dog, 
and hardly less so for the gunner. When the birds 
take wing they are swift fliers, and soon out of sight. 
It has been suggested that these birds would do well 
in various localities in the southern Alleghany Moun- 
tains, where they might take the place of the native 
species, which seem to be growing scarcer. I do not 
know, however, that any serious effort has been made 
to acclimate them in such localities. 
