. Our domestic birds; . record was made byan Englishman named Bache, who had married a daughter ofBenjamin Franklin. In England at that time pheasants werepropagated, as they are to-day, in a half-wild state in game pre-serves, and Mr. Bache expected that those which he imported 1 Figs. 168-172 are from photographs of mounted specimens in the National Museum,made to illustrate Pheasant Raising in the United States, Farmers Bulletin No. jgoof the United States Department of Agriculture. PHEASANTS 213 and released on his estate in New Jersey would soon becomeestablished there. In this he was dis
. Our domestic birds; . record was made byan Englishman named Bache, who had married a daughter ofBenjamin Franklin. In England at that time pheasants werepropagated, as they are to-day, in a half-wild state in game pre-serves, and Mr. Bache expected that those which he imported 1 Figs. 168-172 are from photographs of mounted specimens in the National Museum,made to illustrate Pheasant Raising in the United States, Farmers Bulletin No. jgoof the United States Department of Agriculture. PHEASANTS 213 and released on his estate in New Jersey would soon becomeestablished there. In this he was disappointed. Others whosubsequently tried the same plan met with no better a long time the only pheasants known in this country werethose grown in confinement by fanciers. The first successful attempt to establish pheasants at libertyon this continent was made in Oregon with pheasants broughtdirect from China. The United States consul at Shanghai sentsome Ringneck Pheasants to Oregon in 1880. As most of these. Fig. 169. Mongolian Pheasant died on the way, a second shipment was sent in the followingyear. In all about forty birds were liberated. The shooting ofpheasants was prohibited by law in Oregon until 1892, whenthe stock had become so widely distributed and so well estab-lished that shooting them was allowed for a short season. Sonumerous were the pheasants at this time that on the first dayof this open season about 50,000 were shot by the hunters. Inmany other states efforts have since been made, both by stategame commissions and by private enterprise, to acclimatizepheasants and establish them as game birds. Some of theseefforts have been quite successful. 214 OUR DOMESTIC BIRDS Species and varieties. The relationships of the various kindsof pheasants are not positively known. Some kinds that areundoubtedly varieties of the same species are commonly classedas different species. The best-known of these so-called speciesinterbreed freely. The rare kinds have not b
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