FOREIGN GAME 



While it is not my purpose to dwell at any 

 great length upon the various game-birds which 

 have been introduced by sporting clubs, associa- 

 tions, and enterprising private individuals, a few 

 remarks may not be out of order in concluding 

 this volume on American upland game-birds. 



In the first place, I may as well say that, in my 

 opinion, most of the money lavished upon the 

 importation and breeding of foreign game might 

 be better spent in behalf of native birds. No 

 country in the world has finer native game than 

 this continent can boast, nor is there any foreign 

 game-bird able to truly fill the place of any 

 American species. 



In waterfowl, nothing of which I have any 

 knowledge can surpass our swans, geese, and 

 ducks, while in the matter of long-legged game, 

 from cranes to the least of shore-birds we are 

 without a peer. It is true that the European 

 woodcock is a fine bird, twice the size of ours, 

 but no man, competent to pass an opinion on the 

 sporting and edible qualities of the two species, 

 would hesitate over awarding the palm to the 

 smaller candidate, 



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