The China or Denny Pheasant in Oregon 



MIDWAY between the states of California and Washington, among the lowest 

 western foot-hills of the Cascades, stands a butte, low and weathered, worn 

 down almost to a cone, yet so bold as to form a landmark toward which wandering 

 Oregonians of the Willamette turn fondly as to scenes of earlier days. Close by to the 

 north flows the graceful Santiam fresh from mountains of fir and alder from which it 

 comes, step by step, over beautiful waterfalls, sparkling cascades, and swirling eddies, 

 murmuring there the subdued song of a high-altitude water-thread, by whose side the 

 weary dust-worn desert traveller, from the sage plains far to the east, drinks and is 

 rested. Below, it flows calmly on across broad prairies to join the beautiful Willamette. 

 Here, by stream and butte, among the hills and grassy slopes, was liberated the China 

 or Denny pheasant, destined to become with remarkable rapidity Oregon's most 

 renowned game-bird. 



The story of the introduction of the Chinese pheasant sometimes called ring-necked - 

 into Oregon is a simple one, yet none the less remarkable in its far-reaching results, for 



this experiment by the Willamette has undoubtedly given fresh and vigorous impetus to the 



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