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REPORT OF BOARD OF FISH AND GAME COMMISSIONERS. 
procure additional stock to be used for breeding purposes at the Game 
Farm. He was again successful and shipped to us, via Mazatlan, 26 
fine specimens, which reached their destination in excellent condition. 
From this stock there was raised at the Game Farm in the spring of 
1909, upwards of 100 strong, healthy, young birds, of which number 48 
were sent in care of Mr. Jay Argabrite to Wawona in October, 1909, 
and liberated in the lower part of Yosemite Valley. Feed was scattered 
about, enough to supply their wants for several days. Although raised 
in captivity and not accustomed to anything higher for a perch than 
ordinary domestic fowls, they flew to the tops of tall trees immediately 
A section of breeding pens, Game Farm. 
after liberation. Conditions seemed favorable for them so far as feed 
was concerned, and they have been reported as seen by several reliable 
persons, but no increase has been noted. 
A shipment of 34 birds was made to the Sequoia National Park in 
eastern Tulare County in November, 1909, and placed in charge of Mr. 
Walter Fry, acting superintendent of the park, who has kept them 
under close observation and furnished this office with intelligent, trust¬ 
worthy and most encouraging information concerning them. Quoting 
from his official report of January, 1910, he says: 
The wild nature of the turkey has fully reasserted itself; they are the most wary 
bird in the park. They will not run at the approach of an intruder, but will fly a 
mile before alighting. 
In February, 1910, he reports finding a nest with 5 eggs; in March 
two nests, one with 11, the other with 16 eggs. On March 21st he 
