THE GAME BREEDER 



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in a distance of a mile or so of. Sher- 

 wood in the southeastern part of Wash- 

 ington county. 



Mr. C. C. Bryan, Deputy Game War- 

 den of Corvalhs, reports that on May 

 20. 1912, he heard numbers of Bob- 

 white quail calling about three miles 

 west of Lebanon. He reports that dur- 

 ing 1911, he saw but very few of these 

 quail in the southern part of Benton 

 county, but in 1912, the birds had ma- 

 terially increased in that locality. 



During the fall of 1911, Mr. George 

 Russell, Deputy Game Warden at Gas- 

 ton, reports seeing a number of coveys 

 of Bob-white quail in Polk, Benton and 

 Linn counties. 



Bob-white quail are now fairly com- 

 mon in the Willamette valley from the 

 foothills of the Cascades west to the 

 foothills of the Coast range, and from 

 Oregon City south to Albany, and es- 

 pecially in the vicinity of Corvallis and 

 north to Dallas, McMinnville and For- 



est Grove. At the present time, they 

 are perhaps more abundant in parts of 

 Benton, Polk, Yamhill and Marion 

 counties than in any other parts of the 

 state. During the winters of 1913 and 

 1914, about 200 of these birds were 

 trapped in Yamhill county, near Mc- 

 Minnville, and liberated in other parts 

 of the state. During the winters of 1914 

 and 1915, over 300 were trapped near 

 the same localities to stock other sec- 

 tions. 



During 1913, a covey of Bob-white 

 quail was reported near Grants Pass, 

 but at that time, as far as I know, there 

 were practically none of these birds to 

 the south, especially through the Rogue 

 river valley and across the Cascade 

 range into Klamath, Crook, Lake and 

 Harney counties. Since then Bob-white 

 quail havie been liberated in Douglas, 

 Jacksoii, Josephine, Coos, Multnomah 

 and Klamath counties. 



A PHEASANT-BANTAM HYBRID. 



H. J. Wheeler, Kingston, R. L 



Although there have been reported, ish cast lipon the top of the head. The 



from time to time, several instances of short feathers of the face patch were 



a successful cross between the pheasant turkey-red. The measurements of the 



and the domestic fowl, none of these different parts of the body were as fol- 



has thus far withstood the results of lows : 



close investigation. The following is a Millimeters. 



brief description of the results of an ^,?"i? °/ "P^f '; i™^"!'*"'^ S 



■ , J^ 1 1 t-v T T Width of tnandible at base ^U 



actual cross secured by Dr. Leon J . g^j. ^^f ^g 15 



Cole at the Rhode Island Agricultural Length of wing 250 



Experiment Station in the spring of Length of tail 540 



J9Qg Length of tarsus 70 



Of 77 eggs of the bantam fowl laid ^w^e?gh°f Z^pounds.^'To ounces.' '' ' 



between March 23, 1908, and August The color of the eye was bright bay. 



27 , 1909, only one was fertile. This t.gg description of the mother. 



was laid March 30, 1908. It was set The mother of the hybrid was a 



under a hen on April 4, and hatched mongrel bantam. The general color was 



April 28, thus giving an incubation buff with faint black stripes on the neck, 



period of 24 days. A large amount of black appeared in the 



description of the father. primary wing feathers and in the inner 



This bird, a Ring-Neck pheasant, was veins of the secondaries. The tail 



of average size, plumage, and vigor. feathers were largely black, but con- 



The feathers of the head and neck were tained some yellow. The comb was low, 



irridescent and purplish, with a green- but had the rose-comb characteristics, 



