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be transferred to uninhabited areas. The move to create refuges for 

 them is a real forward step, and oar program to increase the breeding 

 stock on the game farms on an even basis with pheasants, will give them 

 added strength. There is no finer game bird to be found any place and 

 he deserves all the help and protection that it is possible to give him. 



THE REEVES PHEASANT 



In the general scheme of nature bird life is well distributed, each 

 species having its own habitat. In the pheasant family you will find 

 the ring-neck, Mongolian, and versicolor only in the low lands. They 

 like the cultivated fields and marsh land. The Reeves pheasant ranges 

 from three to six thousand feet, and it is impossible to keep him in 

 the lower regions. He is one of the true pheasants, with much to offer 

 for the entertainment of the sportsman. As matters now stand there 

 is little bird life in the higher altitudes. This fellow, with his tail of 

 five or six feet and beautiful black and gold color, would add to the 

 beauty of the mountain scenery. We have sufficient stock at both 

 farms now so that we will be able to raise and liberate many of these 

 fine game birds this coming year. 



ADDITIONAL FARMS 



On December 8, 1929, the Los Serranos game farm was dedicated 

 under the joint supervision of the Division of Fish and Game, Izaak 



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Fig. 36. The original stock of wild turkeys, Mexican Bronze, from the Wiiite 

 Mountains of Arizona. Ttiese fine birds produce 200 young turkeys the first year. 



Walton League, and the Associated Sportsmen. Eight thousand sports- 

 men and their friends joined in the program. This farm is built 

 entirely of steel and marks a new departure in game farm construction. 

 It will serve the southern part of the state and make the work of 

 distribution simpler. As funds are available more farms will be built 

 in locations yet to be selected. The plan is to locate these farms in the 

 center of the area to be served. Competent authorities tell us that 



