400 HUNGARIANI PARTRIDGES A1DDED~ 
                        TO VIRGINIA'48 BIRD POPULATION       t--. ?     V1t
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          "Virginia's game-bird population will be increased by 200
pairs of 
     Hungarian partridges next year, the State Commission of Game and Inland

     Fisheries having ordered this number for delivery and "planting"
for next 
     spring* according to M. D. Hart, executive secretary of the commission.

 
 
 
 
 
     Hungarian partridges have been imported to Virginia seeral 
 times during the last five or six years with some success, Mr. Hart said.

 The birds failed to live and reproduce in the tidewater section of the 
 State, but are reported to be doing well in the more elevated sections.

 It is the plan of the commissionf       n a o brng ina. owTUn re 
 of the birds each year in connection with the program of increasing the

 State's game life. 
     Importation in 1917 of the English ringneck pheasant failed, and 
since that time the commission has adopted the policy of g9iiiaiy advanc-

ing in the program of importing foreign game. 
     Ur. Hart personally expressed the opinion that Virginia had some of

the best game-bird sport in the world, and that he favored the concentra-

tion of efforts in protecting this game life rather than in obtaining 
foreign birds."