532 AMERICAN GAME BIRD SHOOTING 



ley F. Berkeley, a member of Parliament, wrote from 

 Winkton House, in Hampshire, to his friend, Capt. 

 Geo. D. Bayard, saying : "My friend in America up to 

 this last week has been sending me over prairie grouse 

 and quail for naturalization for our society for that 

 purpose here, and I am charmed by being put in mind 

 of the plains, by having a male prairie grouse walking 

 about my garden, tamer than an English pheasant, 

 coming to my whistle for food and making the devil's 

 own howls, with the skin blown out on either side of 

 his neck, strutting and running around and calling for 

 his mate, but I have no mate to give him. The four 

 prairie grouse that came over are all males. A friend 

 of mine, Lord Malmsbury, has imported some of your 

 wood grouse, and they are doing well. 



"I have sent out to different places a great number 

 of quails, some from Canada and some from New 

 York." 



More than twenty years later Mr. Frank Sturgis, of 

 Chicago, sent a large number of live pinnated grouse 

 to a friend in England, who acknowledged them in a 

 letter published in Forest and Stream in the following 

 letter from Neath, under date of March 22, 1883, as 

 follows : 



"I have unfortunately been upon the invalid list at 

 the seaside for a few days, or I would have written at 

 once to acknowledge Mr. Cheetham's letter of the 3d 

 inst., and to thank you most heartily and most sincerely 

 for your princely present of prairie grouse. I am 



