520 AMERICAN GAME BIRD SHOOTING 
to the fauna of the region. In a few instances they 
have interbred with the dusky grouse. 
During the last thirty years a number of different 
exotic species have been suggested as useful birds for 
American shooters. Pheasants have done fairly well in 
certain eastern localities besides those mentioned. 
Major W. A. Wadsworth introduced them into the 
Genesee Valley, and Dr. W. Seward Webb has a large 
preserve in Vermont, where birds are hand-reared and 
turned out to be shot in battues once or twice a year. 
The Blooming Grove Park Association in Pennsylvania 
has successfully raised pheasants, and each year the 
members are permitted to kill a certain number, while 
many other parks and associations, to say nothing of 
some State farms. and a multitude of commercial 
people, have been engaged in the work of rearing these 
handsome birds. It has been demonstrated that the 
pheasant will endure the rigorous climate of the north, 
at least as far as central or northern New York. 
The pheasants are not without their opponents. It 
has been alleged that they destroy or drive off our 
native game birds; that they injure certain crops; and 
that while they themselves are immune to certain dis- 
eases, they yet may communicate these diseases to our 
native birds. 
The latest candidate for public favor on the roll of 
foreign game birds is the so-called Hungarian par- 
tridge—the gray partridge of Europe. It is a bird 
nearly as large as the ruffed grouse, and is hardy and 
offers good shooting. It is only within three or four 
