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tury, near Belleville, N. J., but again the birds disap- 
peared. It is said that between 1820 and 1830 pheas- 
ants were turned out near Baltimore, Md., but by 1830 
the last of the birds seems to have vanished. 
In 1880, Hon. O. N. Denny, then U. S. Consul at 
Tien-Tsin, China, shipped some ringnecked pheasants 
to Oregon. Most of these died, but the following year, 
according to the report of the Fish and Game Protector 
of Oregon for 1895-96, another shipment was made 
which did better, and these were set free on the ranch 
of Mr. John Denny, in the Willamette Valley, in Lynn 
County, Oregon, where they did well and increased 
rapidly. In the late winter or early spring, 1885, an 
important importation came to Portland. These were 
again from Consul Denny, and were sent to the people 
of Oregon in care of a sportsmen’s association of Port- 
land. They included several species. Efforts were 
made to induce the legislature to enact a law protecting 
them and to make a small appropriation for their care 
until they could become established. The legislature 
laughed at these requests and treated them with so 
much scorn as to create quite a little sympathy for the 
sportsmen’s 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 if 
desired, and they were turned out there. 
In 1882 two hundred pairs of English pheasants were 
brought to New York from England to stock Pierre 
Lorillard’s game preserve in Monmouth County, N. J. 
They did well there, and with others imported later by 
