Hr* IsHtaqpte informed me, that he had icepi iteioan spall at the 
State Qems fans where they had hM Grossed snooeeifully with the native 
pall* Beelprooal Grosses i*e* male taacanua & fseals eai male 
eititoi —m x femfte terawws had tern uniformly aaooessful sad had pro- 
das©! large coveys of young* 
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in addition to Ifexlean pail, at sandier dates matters of pail 
were brought into ihrsrlaad from Haasas nasi free- Alaiauaa* la each ease 
•ewe of the iatrodooed birds had beta placed ea the Reward properties* ; 
As booting m the Seward farms daring the present season had been 
prohibited until our arrivals the ooveys of pail had not boon soattorod* 
and it may bo assumed that eaoh float; esooaaterai r^rosoafcod a family, 
the offspring of mas pair of birds* She assumption that msateer® of sash 
band would saMbit more or lose uniform oolor dharasier# was verified by 
the ©jaamlnstioa of all the (pail that wore hilled by the party* She series 
of twenty aisiaa prspered mm from alJsfesn diatinot oovoys and may bo son* 
slasrod oollsotively as typtaA of the (pail population of the area oovor- 
ed* a region between throe mad fetor miles spare* On the average pail of 
the year were still in molt ini 
not yet ooaplotoly grown* fwo 
«»11 piinapt* sad many flooia 
bonds eontninod individuals 
more than half grown, <wd from eras of those ilocta no aficinf wftS topt* 
As the ctoaraoter© that distinguish J* j> taaaann from & j> 
have been eunmarised on a previous report on the Uaadoan pail in fennaylvunia, 
it is aoooasary to state horo only that the native pail i yirfAnlomai is 
oharaotorlsod by larger also, rufoooont oolorstion abovo, and narrow restricted 
