534 AMERICAN GAME BIRD SHOOTING 
large number of them must have reached their destina- 
tion in good condition seems obvious, since no less 
than sixty-six are accounted for in the letter. 
Bobwhite was introduced into England in the earlier 
half of the last century, and is reported to have done 
well for a time. 
No serious attempt has been made to transplant 
from one part of America to another any others of the 
grouse, except that one or more consignments of sharp- 
tailed grouse are said to have been shipped to Massa- 
chusetts, where they were turned out and disappeared. 
Sharp-tailed grouse were planted also on Grand Island 
in Lake Superior, but this is in or close to the native 
range of the species. What the fate of these Grand 
Island sharp-tail grouse may have been we do not 
know. Possibly they shared the fate of the exotic 
grouse there introduced, all of which, we are told, have 
disappeared. 
We read in the accounts of the early Spanish ex- 
plorers that the wild turkey had been domesticated by 
the Indians before the white man’s coming. A consid- 
erable portion of the sustenance of certain Florida In- 
dians was drawn from their turkeys, and we are told 
that the carnivorous animals in the great zoological 
gardens kept up by the Aztec, Montezuma, were fed on 
the flesh of turkeys. 
The domestic turkey is a descendant of the wild 
turkey of the Southwest. The bird was carried to 
Spain and thence spread over Europe, finally reaching 
England. That the common wild turkey of the East 
