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. 
“TI 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: , 
“T 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 
