Ring-neck 
Pheasants 
"been less than thirty or forty. I seldom see so many together 
here, even in late autumn. They have been multiplying fast 
these last few years, no doubt because of the increasing 
number and dispersion,along this road, of large chicken yards. 
I had difficulty in keeping them out of my bird houses last 
spring and only succeeded in doing so by shooting them sys¬ 
tematically. If I remember rightly, I killed seven or eight 
in May and June, 1908, and nearly as many in 1907. They are 
most troublesome on the Ritchie place. 
I had a talk with N. A. Davis this morning about 
Pheasants. He tells me that they have multiplied exceedingly 
during the past two years and that they are now numerous 
almost everywhere throughout the more eastern parts of 
Concord, especially in the open farming country bordering on 
Bedford Street and the Virginia Road. Previous to 1908 
he seldom saw or heard of them on the north and west side of 
Concord River but a large covey spent last autumn on the 
Sewall place at the western base of Punkatassett Hill and 
others were reported to him as frequenting some of the 
neighboring farms. He saw a pair only a few days ago near 
the Manse. He has noticed that,wherever Pheasants become 
numerous,Partridges and, he thinks, Quail also disappear. 
All this agrees perfectly with my own observations, although 
I have seen few Pheasants as yet on this side of the river 
and none at the Farm, where however they have been seen by 
my men 
