Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences . Figure 58.—American Quail or Bob-white {Colinus Virginianus (L.)Les.) Figure 59.—Mocking Bird (Mimus poly-glottos (L.) Brewer^ ) Both from Websters Inter-national Dictionary. here before 1840. Mr. Hurdis, during his entire residence, 1840 to1855, did not meet with it. It was subsequently introduced again,by Mr. Richard Darrell, about 1858 or 59, according to Capt. Reid,and having been better protected by the modern game laws it hasbecome common for the past twenty-five years or more. It notinfrequently comes into
Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences . Figure 58.—American Quail or Bob-white {Colinus Virginianus (L.)Les.) Figure 59.—Mocking Bird (Mimus poly-glottos (L.) Brewer^ ) Both from Websters Inter-national Dictionary. here before 1840. Mr. Hurdis, during his entire residence, 1840 to1855, did not meet with it. It was subsequently introduced again,by Mr. Richard Darrell, about 1858 or 59, according to Capt. Reid,and having been better protected by the modern game laws it hasbecome common for the past twenty-five years or more. It notinfrequently comes into the poultry yards and feeds with thechickens, as I have personally observed. The English Pheasant and Partridge were introduced in 1877 byGovernor Robert M. Laffan, according to Hurdis (p. 407), butwhether either of them long survived I do not know ; thej certainlyhad not become common in 1901, if present at all, which I doubt, * References to the birds of Bermuda are practically wholly lacking in theliterature from 1650 to 1850. Trans. Conn. Acad., Vol.
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