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cent. ; on each 100 pesos (103 dol. 40 c.) of duty there is an addi- 

 tional duty of 1 per cent. 



" Tlie majority of the feathers are very fine, sometimes equalhng 

 and even excelHng the African in quality, but smaller, which is 

 remedied by joining three feathers lengthwise. The large, specially 

 selected feathers used on women's hats bring 15 dol. to 25 dol. 

 per kilo. 



" Some years ago there were nearly 100,000 native Eheas in 

 Uruguay, but the scarcity of food, due to drought and locusts, 

 caused many of them to migrate to Argentina, whence they never 

 returned. At the present time there are about 50,000, the number 

 having been slowly decreasing, as so many were shot for their 

 feathers. However, this year the Government of Uruguay has made 

 an effort to protect them, and it is hoped that their numbers will 

 again increase, as they are one of the nation's important assets." — 

 (Diplomatic and Consular Reports, No. 4605, " Uruguay," 1909.) 



Introduction of the Hungabian Parteidge into the United 

 States.—" Owing to the confusion of names, it is impossible to 

 separate witli certainty the Hungarian from the English Partridges 

 in the records of importations into America, but the earliest attempt 

 to introduce the Hungarian Partridge as such into American covers 

 seems to have been made in 1899,''' when 24 birds brought from 

 Europe were placed on a private preserve at Lynnhaven, Princess 

 Anne County, Ya. This venture was subsequently transferred to 

 Montague, Essex County, Va., and fresh importations were made 

 until by 1906 about 180 birds had been brought over. Meantime, 

 sportsmen and preserve owners in other States w-ere making occa- 



■'- As far back as the latter part of the eighteenth century the Grey 

 Partridge had been introduced into the United States bj- Eichard Bache, 

 son-in-law of Benjamin Frankhn, who stocked his place on the Delaware 

 River, near the present town of Beverlj'-, N, J., with English Pheasants and 

 Partridges in large numbers ; and attempts were subsequently made from 

 time to tune by wealthy landowners in New Jersey and Virginia to introduce 

 these birds, but all were failures. The most elaborate was made by Pierre 

 Lorillard, who established three game preserves of 100, 40, and 25 acres, 

 respectively, on his place at Jobstown, Burlington County, N. J., known as 

 the Rancocas Stud Farm, and put up costly houses for breeding Partridges 

 and Pheasants, which he imported from England for the purpose. There is 

 now no trace of any of these birds. (' Forest and Stream,' xxv. p. 103, 

 Sept. 3rd, 1885.) 



