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ORNITHOLOGISTS and students of game birds have become increasingly interested in experiments in hand-rearing and introducing game birds to new areas, and what is believed to be the first ptarmigan (Lagopus leucurus) to hatch in captivity was from one of eighteen eggs collected by Dr. A. A. Alien, of the Department of Ornithology of Cornell University, near Churchill, Hudson Bay, and put under bantams at Ithaca (Scientific American, Nov. 1934). Science Service, of Washington, D.C., reports that a second batch of twenty ptarmigan eggs has been obtained from Canada and put under bantams, though several eggs have been broken by the foster mothers. During the present year, the first introduction, and hatching, of English pheasants (Phasianus colchicus) in Uganda was accomplished by the Agricultural Department at Kamala (T. W. Chorley, Field, Aug. 4, 1934). The eggs were obtained by Mr. T. W. Chorley, of the Agricultural Department in Uganda, from the Silverdale Game Farm, Lancashire, and arrived by air mail on May 3. Next day they were put under two native fowls, and three chicks hatched on May 27, and the remainder on May 28, 85 per cent of the imported pheasant eggs hatching. Unfortunately, two heavy storms broke out in the first three weeks, and several birds died, but the remainder did well.
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Experimental Hand-Rearing of Game Birds. Nature 134, 930 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134930a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/134930a0