Game Birds In Tahiti
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From Our Own Correspondent.
PAPEETE, January 13.
ATTEMPTS to acclimatise game birds in Tahiti have not met with much success in the past. Pheasants, par tridges, and guinea fowls have all been tried, but the results with these birds have invariably been the same: they have gradually died out and finally dis appeared. There appears to be much better prospects in the case of the Cali fornia quail, some of which were intro duced last year as a joint venture by Messrs. Nordhoff, Guild and Rougier.
The quail were liberated in the hills of Punaavia, which is a comparatively dry district and where, apparently, the birds have found a congenial environ ment as they are already breeding.
Several coveys have been seen in the vicinity during the last few months. It is to be hoped that our local sportsmen will display enough public spirit to re frain from shooting them till they have had a fair chance of spreading over the island.