BOB-WHITE. 
near Boston. The key is the same, but the bird began on 
K flat, and jumped from F up to B flat. It need not be 
supposed that the Quail confines himself to Bob-white 
either, he frequently throws in an extra ‘‘bob” (see 
song No. 3). Mr. Cheney, in Wood Notes Wild, also 
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records a similar song. There was a children’s May- 
song, popular, I remember, in the public schools of New 
York years ago, at the time George F. Bristow was 
principal instructor of music, which began with Bob- 
white’s call, in a sixth. 
How rare the Quail is along the northern border of its 
range, not only my own but Mr. Cheney’s testimony 
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