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ttiry, near Belleville, N. J., but again the birds disap- 

 peared. It is said that between 1820 and 1830 pheas- 

 ants were turned out near Baltimore, Md., but by 1830 

 the last of the birds seems to have vanished. 



In 1880, Hon. O. N. Denny, then U. S. Consul at 

 Tien-Tsin, China, shipped some ringnecked pheasants 

 to Oregon. Most of these died, but the following year, 

 according to the report of the Fish and Game Protector 

 of Oregon for 1895-96, another shipment was made 

 which did better, and these were set free on the ranch 

 of Mr. John Denny, in the Willamette Valley, in Lynn 

 County, Oregon, where they did well and increased 

 rapidly. In the late winter or early spring, 1885, an 

 important importation came to Portland. These were 

 again from Consul Denny, and were sent to the people 

 of Oregon in care of a sportsmen's association of Port- 

 land. They included several species. Efforts were 

 made to induce the legislature to enact a law protecting 

 them and to make a small appropriation for their care 

 until they could become established. The legislature 

 laughed at these requests and treated them with so 

 much scorn as to create quite a little sympathy for the 

 sportsmen's association, and incidentally for the pheas- 

 ants. The owner of Protection Island, in Puget Sound, 

 offered to give the birds a home and protect them if 

 desired, and they were turned out there. 



In 1882 two hundred pairs of English pheasants were 

 brought to New York from England to stock Pierre 

 Lorillard's game preserve in Monmouth County, N. J. 

 They did well there, and with others imported later by 



