GAME BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA. 
BOB WHITE. 
IDELY distributed throughout the Eastern por- 
tions of the United States, from southern Ontario 
on the north to Florida on the south, this most attractive 
little bird, called in the Northern and Middle States Quail, 
and in the South Partridge, is the best known and most 
eagerly sought of all our game birds by the lovers of dog 
and gun who rejoice in the sports of woods and fields. 
It is a sociable species, frequents cultivated lands, resorts 
to the vicinity of the farmer’s dwelling and barns, and 
follows the onward march of the pioneer as he penetrates 
the wilderness to conquer the rough places of the land, 
and produce smiling sunlit fields where once the darken- 
ing forests stood. In Vermont, New Hampshire, and 
northern New York it is rare, and occasionally occurs 
in Maine, but throughout the Eastern States, except 
Florida, and west of the Mississippi in the States of 
Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Louisiana, eastern Texas, 
northern New Mexico, and the Indian Territory it is 
more or less abundant; and is steadily advancing west- 
ward in the track of the new settlements and cultivated 
land. 
It has been introduced into South Dakota, pos- 
sibly from Florida, as the birds I have seen from that 
far Western State resemble very closely those from the 
southern peninsula, and in 1871 some were turned loose in 
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