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It is also one of the few birds that feeds upon that unsavory insect, 

 the Chinoh-bug; and the number of this pest that occasionally fall its 

 prey is really astonishing. A single Chinch-bug is a small thing, still 

 I have seen a quail's stomach filled with them — more than 500 at 

 least calculation having been sacrificed for a single meal of the bird 

 examined. 



Fig. 7. — Bob-white ; Quail. 



No farmer or fruit-grower should ever kill a quail himself, nor 

 should he allow any one else to hunt them on his premises. 



Among the many complimentary things that have been said and 

 written about the Quail the following is worthy of note: 



A statement was made by Rev. J. E. Long, of Ithaca, Mich., and 

 printed in the Gratiot Journal, to the effect that "several weeks ago a 

 pair of quails flew up out of his garden. In making the turn about 

 the corner of the house, one of them missed its reckoning in some way, 

 and striking the house, fell dead. On examining its distended crop, 

 101 potato bugs were found, the little fellow's breakfast, for the bugs 

 were yet alive and began to move about when brought to the fresh 

 air." 



