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and which was trying to stock the County with them, had found 

 out that he was killing them and threatened to arrest him. 



" I have also heard that within three years many western 

 Grouse have been turned out on the Cape. The people who 

 get and liberate them usually try to keep it a secret, believing 

 that if it is known the market gunners will at once go for 

 them. In short, while it is difficult to get proofs of the fact, 

 I have no doubt that hundreds of Grouse from west of the 

 Mississippi have been quietly introduced in Massachusetts within 

 the last ten years." 



Many years since they were introduced from the West to 

 Naushon Island, but appear to have soon become exterminated. 

 As stated above, they have since been liberated in Barnstable 

 County, where several have recently been killed. They doubtless 

 would thrive and increase there if they could be protected from 

 the rapacity of unprincipled gunners. 



2. Cotumix COturnix. EUROPEAN QUAIL. During the 

 last ten years a considerable number of these birds have been 

 imported and turned out in various parts of the State, and also 

 in neighboring States. So far as now known, the experiment 

 has not been attended with very encouraging success. A few 

 instances of their breeding have been reported, but in the main 

 the birds have been lost sight of, so that the attempt at their 

 naturalization has been practically a failure. (For a history of 

 their introduction, etc., see Forest and Stream, issues of June 28, 

 Aug. 2, Aug. 9, Aug. 23, Sept. 6, Nov. 15, Nov. 29, Dec. 6, and 

 Dec. 27, 1877.) 



3. Carduelis elegans. EUROPEAN GOLDFINCH. Of late 

 years this species has been repeatedly met with in a wild state in 

 the vicinity of Cambridge and elsewhere near Boston, where 

 doubtless it may be considered as fairly established, as it certainly 

 seems to be in the vicinity of New York, near which city it is 

 known to have been turned out in numbers a few years ago 

 (Adney, Auk, III, 1886, 409). It has also been taken at Falmouth, 

 Mass. (Swift, Orn. and Ool., IX, 1884, 12). 



4. Passer domesticus. HOUSE SPARROW. This introduced 

 pest appears to have now spread to all parts of the State, at least 



