The China or Denny Pheasant in Oregon

A brief review by J. A. Allen of a booklet by William T. Shaw on a history of the introduction of Ring-necked Pheasant in Oregon.

Releases of birds into the Willamette Valley of Oregon in the early 1880s represented the first successful introductions of the Ring-necked Pheasant in North America.

Sources:

Allen, J. A. 1908. [Review of] Shaw’s ‘The China or Denny pheasant in Oregon.’ Auk 25: 241-242.

Shaw, William T. 1908. The China or Denny pheasant in Oregon, with notes on the native grouse of the Pacific Northwest. J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia. 24 pp.