TRANSPLANTING AMERICAN GAME BIRDS 533 
sure that I am quite right in stating you have altogether 
excelled all previous attempts in this direction, and 
the successful outcome of the shipment reflects the 
greatest credit upon your excellent arrangements. The 
birds being so rare, and the quantity so far in excess of 
any private requirements, I hope you will be pleased 
rather than offended at the distribution which has been 
arranged. Acting in concert with Mr. Henry Nash, 
who communicated with Mr. Lowell, we have pre- 
sented twenty to her Majesty the Queen, for Balmoral, 
and the Prince of Wales has been graciously pleased 
to accept twenty for Sandringham. We have sent ten 
to the Zodlogical Gardens in Regent’s Park, where they 
are very much prized and valued, and we have turned 
out sixteen to take their chances upon our Welsh 
hills—jointly upon Lord Jersey’s property and upon 
shooting land which is leased by the writer. Such of 
these last birds as have since been seen were all doing 
well, and I have a report to-day that those which were 
sent to the Zoological Gardens are also well and getting 
less shy than when first turned out. The birds which 
were sent to the Zoological Gardens are the only ones 
now in confinement, and it is understood that the so- 
ciety will reserve half of any young birds which may 
result in case those which are turned out should not in- 
crease their numbers. I shall hope to report further 
satisfactory progress very shortly. 
“PHILIP W. FLOWER.” 
What became of these birds we do not know; that a 
