FORM 22287 
                EG Us PAT.- C 
 
              ESTA B UISHE 0 802 
 
 E.I. Du PONT DE NEMOURS& COMPANY 
              INCORPORATED 
          CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT 
          WILM INGTON, DELAWARE, 
 
 GAME RESEARCH DIVISION                       January 21, 1931. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
       Mr. Aldo Leopold, 
       421 Chemistry Building, 
       University of Wisconsin, 
       Madison, Wis. 
 
 
       My dear Aldo - 
 
                        I am attaching hereto copy of a retort 
       from Earl Fry which is self-explanatory, together with 
       copy of my letter to him.  In another report Fry also 
       says :- 
 
                       "A statement made by one of the delegates 
          attending the State Sportsmen's Convention here is of 
          special interest relative to various species of birds 
          and their relationship on the same territory. 
                        I have had many comments, particularly 
          from the old timers, that the ringneck pheasant has 
          killed off the prairie chicken (pinnated grouse). 
                       Mr. L. A. Smith, Lewistown, Montana, has 
          a ranch of 1,170 acres whereon he has four large covies 
          of prairie chickens, 12 to 20 birds in each covey, two 
          covies of Hungarians and 70 to 80 ringneck pheasants* 
                       He retorts as watching them very closely. 
          He says that all three species have made a nice in- 
          crease during the past year.* 
 
 
                                  Ml yours, 
 
 
                                    L. W. T. Waller, Jr. 
                                    Director of Conservation. 
      LWTW/c 
 
 
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