REPORT OF BOARD OF FISH AND GAME COMMISSIONERS. 
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the stock by withholding from distribution four dozen Hungarian par¬ 
tridges out of some 1,500 that had been purchased for distribution 
throughout the State. Owing to the fact that many of our imported 
pheasants did not arrive until the beginning of the breeding season, we 
collected comparatively few eggs the first year. The birds that were 
bought in our own State and Oregon were the first to arrive and were 
in prime condition at the breeding period. We raised approximately 
1,200 young pheasants the first season, of which number about 800 were 
distributed in sections that in our opinion were specially adapted for 
their increase under wild conditions—Siskiyou, Humboldt, and Inyo 
View of State Game Farm. 
counties receiving the largest number,. ranging from 75 to 80 birds in 
each plant. Smaller shipments were made to other portions of the 
State and some given to private individuals who were properly 
equipped, and others liberated where conditions were favorable both as 
to environment and protection. In all, twenty counties received pheas¬ 
ants from the Game Farm the first year. A serious loss was sustained 
in October, 1909, through an act of vandalism—the pens being 
maliciously opened during the night, and many pheasants and valley 
quail were given their liberty. We were holding at the Game Farm for 
distribution at the end of the open season a large number of valley 
quail that had been trapped in remote sections where they are super¬ 
abundant, and were to be used to restock public lands where through 
excessive shooting and interbreeding the supply of valley quail was 
