NAl^URAL HISTORY OF THE PHEASANT 



shipped eleven Mongolian pheasants to the State of 

 Oregon, where they were turned loose. The Secretary 

 of State in Oregon writes me word that from these 

 eleven Mongolian pheasants introduced by Judge 

 Uenney, of Portland, Oregon, only nine years since, 

 there are now in existence at least a million descend- 

 ants. They are spreading into the State of \Vashing- 

 ton to the north of Oregon, and to California on the 

 south ; whilst, simultaneously, some live specimens 

 have been imported into New England, and others 

 into the States on the Gulf of Mexico.' Mr. Blaisdell 

 claims that four years ago he imported into the State 

 of Illinois the first pair of Mongolian or Ring-necked 

 Pheasants that ever crossed the Rocky Mountains. 

 ' I turned them loose here,' he says, ' and they have 

 been seen many times since. They are the most 

 beautiful of game birds, and will live in any cHme. 

 In A^ermont last winter they stood the very coldest 

 weather ever experienced in that State, when it was 

 'way below zero.' ' 



' Baily's Magazine, 1895, p. 8, 



