FOREST AND STREAM. 
837 
Nov. 19, 1910.] 
land which is leased by the writer. Such of 
these last birds as have since been seen were all 
doing well, and I have a report to-day that those 
which were sent to the Zoological Gardens are 
also well and getting less shy than when first 
turned out. The birds which were sent to the" 
Zoological Gardens are the only ones now in 
confinement, and it is understood that the so¬ 
ciety will reserve half of any young birds which 
may result in case those which are turned out 
should not increase their numbers. I shall hope 
to report further satisfactory progress very 
shortly. Philip W. Flower.” 
What became of these birds we do not know; 
that a large number of them must have reached 
their destination in good condition seems obvious, 
since no less than sixty-six are accounted for in 
the letter. 
Bobwhi'e was introduced into England in the 
earlier half of the last century, and is reported 
to have done well for a time. 
No serious attempt has been made to trans¬ 
plant from one part of America to another any 
others of the grouse, except that one or more 
consignments of sharp-tailed grouse are said to 
have been shipped to Massachusetts, where they 
were turned out and disappeared. Sharp-tailed 
grouse were planted also on Grand Island in 
Lake Superior, but this is in or close to the 
native range of the speciesl What the fate of 
these Grand Island sharp-tail grouse may have 
been we do not know. Possibly they shared the 
fate of the exotic grouse there introduced, all 
of which, we are told, have disappeared. 
We read in the accounts of the early Spanish 
explorers that the wild turkey had been domesti¬ 
cated by the Indians before the white man’s com¬ 
ing. A considerable portion of the sustenance 
of certain Florida Indians was drawn from their 
turkeys, and we are told that the carnivorous 
animals in the great zoological gardens kept up 
by the Aztec, Montezuma, were fed on the flesh 
of turkeys. 
The domestic turkey is a descendant of the 
wild turkey of the Southwest. The bird was 
carried to Spain and thence spread over Europe, 
finally reaching England. That the common wild 
turkey of the East may also be domesticated has 
been shown by experiments carried on on a 
plantation near Farmville, Va., by Prof. Robert 
Lee Blanton, an account of which was published 
in Forest and Stream, Vol. 74. p. 450. 
When, if ever, game refuges shall be estab¬ 
lished in the various States—game refuges prop¬ 
erly protected, be it understood—they should be 
stocked with wild turkeys. 
FREE OF WOLVES AT LAST. 
“Wolves are surely extinct in Ramsey 
county,” declared Deputy County Auditor 
Jimmy Drummond recently in speaking of the 
falling off in the payments of wolf bounties in 
this county during the last year. 
We have not paid a bounty this year,” said 
Mr. Drummond, “and this is the first time in 
my experience that some one has not brought 
in a hide and received the regular $7.50 bounty. 
In former years there were as high as seven or 
eight carcasses brought to the auditor’s office 
by hunters from Little Canada or White Bear, 
but this year there has not been one bounty 
paid, and the last of the wolves has met his 
fate, I think.” — St. Paul Pioneer Press. 
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