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Show New exotic bird shipment sent Another shipment of exotic game birds under a cooperative coopera-tive agreement between the Utah and Nevada Departments of Fish and Game arrived here last week. The final shipment of birds included ten common sand grouse and twenty imperial sand grouse wild-trapped from their native environment in India. This shipment marks the first and only importation of this latter species known in the United States. During the past three years the Department's game farm at Price has been the recipient of several hundred native Asian game birds. Under terms of the two-state agreement, experimental stocks of common sand grouse, grey francolin, black francolin, see see partridge and now imperial sand grouse have been sent to the farm for experimentation in rearing brood stocks of these new game species for introduction in-troduction into presently non-inhabited non-inhabited game bird range in Utah and Nevada. According to a Nevada game bird biologist who has been assigned as-signed in India for the past three years to capture these birds, all species should fit well into the arid pattern of the western United States and should inhabit areas where no game bird species are presently pre-sently known to exist. |