THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 



It is well for sportsmen to bear in mind that each hunting 

 license has three coupons attached. Whenever a deer is killed, 

 one of these must be detached, signed and dated and tied to the 

 carcass of the deer. One of these coupons must always accom- 

 pany the carcass. It is unlawful after killing a deer to mutilate 

 the carcass in any way so as to disguise the sex. It is also unlaw- 

 ful for any person to have in possession more than forty pounds 

 of dried venison. 



PHEASANT CHICKS IN TOWN. 



During the first week in June, two Chinese pheasant chicks about a 

 day old were found in the early morning on the asphalt pavement of West- 

 moreland in the city of Portland. They had been unable to follow the 

 mother up the curbing. A few days later two more were found on the 

 street in front of Reed College. The day after, another was found in the 

 same bend in the street. In both cases, had the mother pheasant 

 led her brood fifty feet to the right or left, some dried grasses or other 

 obstructions in the gutter would have enabled the little ones to surmount 

 the six or seven inches, which to them was a gigantic cliff. 



Pheasant Chick Unable to Get Over Curbing*. 



During the summer, a mother pheasant has led her one chick — or rather 

 has been led by the baby — for it is always several feet ahead or off to one 

 side. The rest of the brood were probably lost during the first few days 

 after hatching. 



In another part of the city where a sewer was being dug, several baby 

 pheasants fell into the ditch and would have died but for a friendly hand 

 that arrived in time. 



These and other accidents show that the pheasant is not thoroughly 

 accustomed to the dangers of city life. Yet for all this, there are more 

 pheasants in the city of Portland than in any other city in the United 

 States or perhaps in any city in the world. If the young pheasants were 

 protected from the large number of stray house cats, these beautiful birds 

 would be feeding in our dooryards. 



Fag-e four 



