THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 261 

Hatchery and row of Chinese Pheasant rearing pens on the Linn Ringneck 
Game Ranch, Albany, Oregon. 
THE OREGON “CHINABIRD,” PRESENT AND 
FUTURE 
By CHAS. D. ALEXANDER, Albany, Oregon. 
‘“‘America today is undergoing, in her game fields, 
the sure and steady transition from a natural 
sufficiency to an artificially-supplemented suf- 
ficiency.”’ 
HOSE eminent qualifications which make the Oregon Chinese, or 
“4 Denny Pheasant, peerless amongst the world’s first-water game 
birds need no extolling to Beaver sportsmen, Beaver nature-lovers 
—and these two classes embrace the populace—nor to hosts of visiting 
tourists, hunters and people business bent. The intelligence of the 
hunted bird in the field, his toothsomeness on the platter, and the zeal 
with which he sets in to recuperate his thinned ranks after a Fall of 
powder and shot and a Winter of rain and snow, are known to all of 
even the most meagre once-a-year acquaintance. These facts, intermin- 
gled with a thousand and two tales of ‘‘how we got him,’’ have pene- 
trated, mostly by word of mouth, the divers haunts of sportsmen East 
and West. And of the many good things said of Oregon, they form a 
portion of no insignificant value. 
But what of the things that are to be said of Oregon? What of the 
future of the game, of dog, man, gun and bird? What of the tales to 
be told of the days afield in the yellowing stubble or rattling corn, and 
the pop-pop of the first day’s opening reveille? 
Perish the thought! The marathon-legged Chinabird will be with 
us still. He must be with us; and, although the development of the 
Oregon country has thrust new problems athwart his path, no dire, 
yellow prediction of extermination shall be meted out to him today; 
