THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 59 
MOOSE HUNTING IN WYOMING. 
For the first time in twelve years moose hunting is permitted in 
Wyoming, while in Maine the moose are to be protected for four 
years. This is the first absolutely close season on this specie of game 
animal in Maine for 35 years. 
NATIONAL GAME PRESERVES ESTABLISHED. 
Fourteen new game preserves were established during 1915 in 
different states, and three were established upon the national forests 
of California. These game refuges or preserves will not interfere 
with agricultural settlement or pursuits, for they are located mostly 
in remote regions or upon areas not suitable for anything else, and 
are in reality breeding places for game. 
WILL IT COME TO THIS? 
The days of the hunting dog are numbered. There will, no doubt, 
be a movement started to wipe the hunting dog off the map. Farmers 
who have heretofore been driven to distraction by dogs running their 
stock will have an opportunity at the next election to vote against 
the nuisance.—Silverton Appeal. 
CHINESE PHEASANTS IN SOUTH DAKOTA. 
Five years ago three residents of Redfield, S. D., bought twelve 
Chinese pheasants and put them in a grove near that town, where 
they did well, and the following year a collection was taken up among 
the residents of Fedfield and some fifty-seven more birds were pur- 
chased and planted in the same place, and from the beginning of 
sixty-nine birds the number has grown until now it is estimated that 
there are not less than 20,000 of these birds in Spink County, the 
county in which Redfield is located. The birds have been seen almost 
to Aberdeen and nearly to Huron, forty miles either way from Red- 
field, and they have been encountered as far east as Doland and 
also fifteen miles west of Redfield.—American Field. 

ALBINO QUAIL IS SEEN WITH FLOCK. 
An albino quail, its plumage as white as the snow that glistens 
on the mountains, was seen with a flock of 36 valley quail feeding 
upon wheat scattered under the bushes back of Fred Merrill’s home 
on the south side of the river this morning, says the Grants Pass 
Observer. Mrs. Merrill has been putting out wheat for the quail in 
that neighborhood during the past few days of storm, and every day 
numbers of the little beauties have been accepting the charity. This 
morning with the three dozen was the white one, his every feather 
being as free from color as that of a dove, his crest feathers also 
being pure white. He mingled with his fellows, and the entire covey 
Ee ey and unafraid, he was viewed at close range by Mrs. 
errill. 
