BOBWHITES, QUAILS 



will sometimes incubate the first clutch while 

 the female is bringing off a second brood, 

 thus accounting for the large number of 

 young often seen trailing after one pair of 

 bobwhites. The young are little balls of 

 fuzzy brown, striped on the back w^ith darker 

 brown and buff. As soon as they are out of 

 the shell and have dried off they are ready to 

 leave the nest and follow their parents out 

 into the world. Bobwhites watch their 

 young with jealous care, giving the alarm at 

 the slightest approach of danger. 



In the more settled parts of the country 

 bol) whites spend most of their time in grain 

 and potato fields where they consume great 

 numbers of potato bugs and other insects 

 which are injurious to field crops. 



They are not know^i to injure grain or field 

 crops of any kind, and wherever you go, east 

 or west, the bobwhite is one of the favorite 

 birds of farmer and bird-lover alike; his 

 cheery call bringing up recollections of days 

 on the farm, of waving grain and rustling 

 corn, of peace and contentment. 



IVIountain quail, Oreoriyx picia picta. 

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Distribution: Humid Pacific Coast dis- 

 tricts from middle California north to Puget 

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