TRANSPLANTING AMERICAN GAME BIRDS 531 
an importation of these birds turned out in Massachu- 
setts. He says: 
“In the early spring of 1884 or 1885, six pairs of 
prairie hens brought from Iowa were liberated by Mr. 
Robert B. Nesbitt, of Cambridge, at various points 
along Concord Avenue, between Belmont and Concord. 
He tells me that he was afterwards informed—on 
somewhat questionable authority, however—that sev- 
eral of these birds reared broods of young that season. 
I can vouch for the fact that a year or two later an adult 
male spent most of the spring in a grain field near the 
village of Carlisle, Massachusetts, where it was seen 
by my friend, Mr. George H. Robbins, and several of 
his neighbors. 
“Another bird of the same sex was met with by Mr. 
Walter Faxon in the Fresh Pine Swamps (on the Ar- 
lington side of Little River) on May 14, 1892. The 
latter instance may be taken to indicate that at least a 
few of these grouse may have succeeded in maintain- 
ing themselves for a number of years, but there are no 
good reasons for believing that any of them are still 
living or have left living descendants. In short, the at- 
tempts to establish them permanently in the Cambridge 
region, as well as in other certain parts of Massachu- 
setts where they were liberated about the same time, 
have evidently proved a complete failure.” 
Efforts have been made to naturalize various Amer- 
ican game birds in England, but so far as known, with 
no permanent success, except in the case of the turkey, 
and this only as a domestic bird. In 1861 Mr. Grant- 
