184 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



that year and also in 1879, but so far as we know none are now 

 to he found. 



Perdix perdix (Linnaeus). Gray Partridge. 



During 1908 and 1909 about 3,000 birds of this species were 

 imported from Europe by our Game Commission and released 

 in different parts of Connecticut, and a large number in 1910.^ As 

 the majority brought to the United States came from Hungary, 

 this bird has become commonly known as the Hungarian Part- 

 ridge. 



During 1909 a number were reported to have mated and raised 

 young, but the majority seem to have disappeared.. However, 

 it is yet too soon to pronounce on the success of this attempt at 

 introducing a foreign game-bird into our state. 



Tympanuchus cupido (Linnaeus). Heath Hen. 



Abundant in dry, bushy places in southern New England in 

 the days of the first white settlers, this species had been extermi- 

 nated in Connecticut before the time of Linsley, but was reported 

 to be still found in " shrubby barrens in Westford, Connecticut," 

 by Nuttall,^ who wrote some ten years earlier. 



Phasianus colchicus (Linnaeus). English Pheasant. 



Phasianus torquatus Gmelin. Ring Pheasant. 



Numbers of both these Pheasants were liberated by sportsmen 

 at various places in Connecticut at different times between 1890 

 and 1900 ; but none of them seems to have succeeded in becoming 

 acclimated, and almost all have disa^eared. 



The only records are: June 2, 1897, New Haven, one flushed 

 (L. B. B.) ; Dec. 27, 1901, Gaylordsville, one female found, 

 apparently killed by a hawk (E. H. A.) ; fall, 1904, some reported 

 seen in the Connecticut valley (according to J. E. Bassett). 



Meleagris gallopavo silvestris (Viellot). Wild Turkey. 



With a history somewhat similar to that of the Heath Hen, 

 and probably originally much more common over most of Con- 

 necticut, the Wild Turkey disappeared about the same date. 



Linsley states : " The last wild turkey that I have known in 

 Connecticut, was taken by a relative of mine, about thirty years 

 since, on Toto ket Mountain, in Northford. It was overtaken in 



-Oldys, Yearbook Dept. Agriculture for 1909, pp. 255-6. 



•Manual of the Ornithology of the United States and of Canada — the Land 

 Birds, 1832, p. 662, 



