THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 



TRIBUTE TO JUDGE O. N. DENNY. 



3356 Eighteenth St., Washington, D. C, June 11th, 1914. 



Dear Mr. Pinley: 



I have been much interested in copies of recent issues of The Oregon 

 Sportsman, and the excellent picture, reproduced from a photograph from life 

 of a " Chinese Pheasant Mother" on the outside cover page of the May, 

 1914, number, vividly brought to mind my first meeting with Judge Denny 

 in Washington, a great many years ago. My father, then an admiral in the 

 navy, had invited him to dine with him, and it was during the course of 

 this dinner that I heard the judge give a full account of his having secured 

 a number of pairs of Chinese pheasants in China, when he was on his 

 way back from Corea, and that he had had them released in Oregon to breed 

 under very favorable conditions. It was the common pheasant of the 

 country, and he hoped to establish it as a game bird in Oregon. He had 

 met all the expenses, I believe, and was evidently not only a most enthusiastic 

 Oregonian, but a firm believer in augmenting the list of game birds of the 

 country in any legitimate way he could. 



I have the most pleasant recollections of Judge Denny, and I greatly 

 admired the vigor and superb qualities of the man and the pride he took in 

 developing the resources of the Pacific Coast. 



I have often wondered whether the quail of Europe could not be suc- 

 cessfully introduced in Oregon. It is a fine little game bird, multiplies rap- 

 idly, and does not constitute a nenace to the agriculturalist in any way. 



Efforts have been made several times to introduce it in the East, but 

 each time the undertaking has failed owing to the strong migratory instincts 

 of the species. They gradually diminish in numbers, finally disappearing 

 altogether, notwithstanding the fact that they are very hardy little birds 

 and the country well adapted to their propagation. 



Several years ago, I kept some of these birds alive, and on several 

 occasions I succeeded in making good photographs of them. As a matter 

 of fact, I have been successful in photographing from life all the different 

 species of quails which occur throughout the Pacific Coast region, and as 

 an example of these, I am sending you a photograph I have made of the 

 California quail — a bird I have had alive in my keeping upon several 

 occasions. 



This quail is frequently kept as a pet in the East; it is a most affection- 

 ate and interesting one, and it has always been a wonder to me that the 

 various species of Californian quails have not been introduced as game 

 birds into a number of favorable districts in the Middle and Eastern dis- 

 tricts of the Country. 



With best wishes, 



Sincerely yours, 



R. W. SHUFELDT. 



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