The Oregon Sportsman 



Volume I OCTOBER 1913 Number 2 



OPEN SEASON ON CHINESE PHEASANTS. 



The season on Chinese pheasants, which has been closed for 

 two years, opened October 1 and will continue until the evening 

 of October 31 throughout Game District Number 1, which lies 

 west of the Cascade Mountains, with the exception of Jackson, 

 Josephine, Coos and Curry Counties. The season on these birds 

 is closed in eastern Oregon. 



The Chinese pheasant is Oregon's greatest game bird. They 

 were introduced into the Willamette Valley in the early eighties. 

 They have gradually increased and spread until, at the present 

 time, there are more in the western part of the State than ever 

 before. 



The law provides that only male Chinese pheasants may be 

 killed. The hens are protected by a law passed at the last 

 session of the Legislature. 



Under the present law, the blue or sooty grouse, the ruffed 

 grouse or native pheasant and the Chinese pheasant are all placed 

 in one class. The limit on these birds combined is five per day, 

 or ten in seven consecutive days. The law provides that a person 

 cannot have in possession more than five of these birds in one 

 day. 



Under the same law, there is a separate limit on quail of 

 ten birds per day, or the same number in seven consecutive days. 

 The largest day limit, therefore, that a hunter may kill in upland 

 game birds is fifteen, five of which may be grouse and pheas- 

 ants, and ten of which may be quail. 



THE NEW FEDERAL GAME LAW. 



Our last Legislature repealed practically all the game laws 

 of previous years and passed a game code which was an improve- 

 ment in many ways over the old laws. There was one serious 



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