528 AMERICAN GAME BIRD SHOOTING 
a traveler and canoeist, and was printed in Forest and 
Stream in December, 1874. It tells of the introduction 
of the pinnated grouse and two species of Pacific Coast 
quail in eastern Maryland. The essential parts of 
his letter are as follows: 
“About five years since a resident of Philadelphia 
sent to Dr. F. J. Purnell, near Berlin, Worcester 
County, Maryland, a few pairs of prairie chickens and 
a covey of both the valley and mountain partridge, or 
quail. Dr. Purnell has an estate of fifteen hundred 
acres lying along the banks of Newport Creek, which 
stream flows into Sinepuxent Bay, on the eastern shore 
of Maryland. Since the war, this estate has been 
worked for the Doctor by his tenants. Much of it is 
woodland and salt meadows. The partridges were for 
some time kept confined in the house and then were 
set at liberty. They soon disappeared, except one pair, 
which returned daily to the kitchen door to be fed. For 
some cause the pair went to a neighbor’s house, on the 
same estate, and for some weeks were fed from the 
kitchen door. This pair of birds nested in the garden 
near the house, and raised a brood of young birds. The 
covey left their old quarters, and were heard from but 
once after their departure. A person reported that he 
saw the covey of ‘California quails on the other side of 
the creek.’ This was two years since. It is now sup- 
posed that these partridges have been shot by gunners 
or have died from natural causes. 
“The prairie chickens adapted themselves to their 
new home with but little trouble to the proprietor of the 
