80 AMERICAN GAME BIRD SHOOTING 



and other chaparral, will long protect them, and make 

 the work of shooting them very difficult for the dog, 

 and hardly less so for the gunner. When the birds 

 take wing they are swift fliers, and soon out of sight. 



It has been suggested that these birds would do well 

 in various localities in the southern Alleghany Moun- 

 tains, where they might take the place of the native 

 species, which seem to be growing scarcer. I do not 

 know, however, that any serious effort has been made 

 to acclimate them in such localities. 



