12 REPORT OF MONTANA FISH AND GAME COMMISSION 



Herewith are portions from some of the reports received by the 

 writer showing how these birds are doing 



"Two flocks of young birds, about half grown, have recently been 

 seen. One had 19 young ones and the other about the same number. 

 A nest was found early in the season in which there were 24 eggs. 



"E. H. GOODMAX, Townsend." 



"The Hungarian Partridges are doing fine. 



GEORGE T. HANSEN, Wibaux." 



"In regard to 'Hun' Patridges will say that I had just made a trip 

 out to where we put them, last Sunday and am pleased to say that I 

 found three separate coveys, all doing fine. The coveys are so large 

 that I could not count them. 



H. A. GAYHART, Kalispell." 



"Mr. Kaiser, our County Commissioner, and on whose ranch we re- 

 leased them, informs me that he saw two flocks with twelve young 

 birds each, dusting by the road in a grove of poplars, a few days ago. 



"E. P. BALLARD, Philipsburg." 



"A short time after the birds were turned out the boys reported 

 seeing one or two coveys of young ones and I have no doubt that 

 since then more of them have hatched. 



IL E. RICKARD, Poplar." 



"From all reports they are doing fine and only this week we saw a 

 covey of 12 young ones within half mile of town. 



"R. A. STAM. Chinook." 



"I have visited the section where they were liberated yesterday 

 and the residents report having seen two pairs with young. One pair 

 with 10 birds, another with 13. 



"E. A. WILSON. Livingston." 



"Young birds, lots of them. One farmer told me that he saw two 

 hens and they only had twenty-nine little 'Huns' with them, so you 

 see that there is no race suicide in their ranks. Another farmer told 

 me that there were at least fifty young birds on his place so we 

 can safely say that we have at least one hundred birds hatched and 

 doing well from the original nine pair that were liberated. 



"HUGO KLOSSNER, Eureka." 



"One of these hens came in to IMr. Kent's yard with 12 little chix 

 following her. Since then another hen has been located with 11 more 

 and another nest found not hatched. 



"RAY C. THOMPSON, Hardin." 



"The Hungarian Partridges have done extremely well and the hens 

 seem to have broods of about fifteen each. I am sure that they will 

 be a great success as we have a number that have migrated in here 

 from .Mberta. .Mberta stocked with them some years ago and they 

 have multiplied very rapidly. The ones that have come in here from 

 Canada are mostly in the Sweet Grass Hills and on Milk river. There 

 were several bunches of over fifty this spring. There are a few on 

 the Marias river, one l)uiuh of about twenty on the .Malone ranch. I 

 did not know what they were uiilil 1 saw the ones shipped here by the 

 Game Dei)artment. 



"SINCLAIM .MacDOX.AM). Conrad." 



"I am glad to advise that we have been successful in linding two 

 covies of about ten young birds, each, of Hungarians. 



"M. B. HA.Ml'TO.X, White Sulphur Springs." 



