Pheasants and Hungarians 



107 



Historical data are largely lacking in Iowa for both species, on both maps 

 and tables. Map detail for early pheasants plantings in Minnesota, Iowa, Michi- 

 gan, and Ohio is also meager. The present pheasant distribution in Ohio, how- 

 ever, is especially accurate, being based on a recent survey by Hicks and McCor- 



HUNGARIAN (OR GRAY) PARTRIDGE 



AS DETERMINED BY A 



GAME SURVEY 



OF THE NORTH-CENTRAL STATES. 



MADE BY ALDO LEOPOLD IN 1928-1929 FOR THE 

 STORTING ARMSIANMUNITION MANUFACTURERS'INSTITUTE 



Southern limits / Ne 



r-^- of glaciate 



v Drift birds seen 



A Stragglers now surviving 

 but no broods known 



X Game forms attempting- 



T' to get eggs under wire 



O Plant. Number of birds above, date bekw 

 O pndetermmate or unknown 



Result! Foiled (dale last seen to right) 



Plant j Apparent success 

 O (.Wild nests or broods seen 



X Apparent establishment 



Indeterminate due to continued 



recent planting (or very thin population) 



MAP 11 



mick, made under the auspices of the conservation commission, and about to be 

 published in much more detail than here appears. Their courtesy in allowing ad- 

 vance use of their maps is gratefully acknowledged. 



Types of Success and Failure. When the survey began, I had no con- 

 ception of intergradation between success and failure in game bird plantings. 

 One put out birds, and they either lived or got killed. If they got killed, it was 



