THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 263 
The absence this year of huckleberries accounts for the bear 
being seen in the more open places. Nearly every hunter reports 
seeing bear. 
I want to mak special mention to the hunters of the birds called 
Hungarian pheasants. These birds were liberated here three years 
ago on the game refuge three miles from Pilot Rock and nested the 
next year. Now, however, they have all gone to the foothills and 
mountains and seem to be adopting the habits of the grouse. Without 
doubt these birds are better for this country than the Chinese pheas- 
ant, inasmuch as they are seeking the uplands and protection of the 
timber. Hunters must be very careful and not make the mistake of 
shooting them for the native pheasants. The Hungarian pheasant 
when it first rises on the wing makes a peculiar sharp noise which can 
be instantly recognized. When he gets well on his flight this noise 
ceases and unless the hunter sees the bird rise there is danger of 
making an innocent mistake and shooting a protected game bird. 
These birds are becoming very numerous. Hunters report seeing 
flocks wherever they go. There is no doubt that they will eventually 
spread over the whole country. I am of the opinion that they are 
far better than the Hastern quail, or any other species of game bird 
that has ever been liberated here. People should be encouraged in 
their propagation. 
THE “CHINA” PHEASANTS 
By WarbDEN JoHN LarsON. 
China pheasants are of great abundance in Clatsop County on 
account of the two years of closed season. This has helped in many 
ways. First, it helps increase; the pheasants breed in certain places, 
thus causing a larger popularity of this feathered tribe. Second, they 
spread more rapidly. When the China pheasants are old enough to 
look out for themselves they generally fly away to a different locality, 
and when old enough they breed in entirely different breeding places. 
The season has been closed for two years, and if it is closed for 
two more years there will be a large variety in Clatsop County, as 
well as in other places. 
ENJOYING THE FEELING OF FULLNESS 
By Warpen W. O. Haptey. 
Earnest Cramer, H. S. Soule and Earnest Kuebler, three sports- 
men of The Dalles, while hunting on the North Fork of Mill Creek, 
on the east side of Bald Butte, on September 8, killed a very large 
rattlesnake which had just swallowed a cottontail rabbit whole and 
was lying out in the open enjoying the feeling of fullness experienced 
after a good meal. They cut the snake open and found that part of 
the hair on the rabbit was dry and that he had been swallowed head 
first. Part of the rattlers had been broken off, but the reptile still 
had twelve left, which evidently were enough to charm bunny. 
S. M. Dick, a Hood River fisherman, hooked a fine steelhead on 
September 17. Mr. Dick was fly fishing with a single gut leader and 
No. 8 hook, and it took him two and one-fourth hours to land the fish, 
which measured 30 inches and weighed 914 pounds. 
