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pursuer a short distance off", disappears in the cover bj- 

 running, or spreads her wings and flies from fifty to one 

 hundred yards and lights, and returns by a circuitous 

 route to the place she has just abandoned, and collects 

 around her the young brood, and leads them away to a 

 place of safety. This well known manoeuvre, which the 

 female resorts to for the safety of her young, is well under- 

 stood by all sportsmen of experience, but to the young and 

 inexperienced, or a dog, the decoy eight times in ten proves 

 successful. Their notes, when calling the young brood to- 

 gether, is a low twittering sound, very much like that of 

 young chickens. When a covey of full grown birds, and 

 those that are nearly so, are flushed and separated, their 

 call note to reassemble themselves together again, is very 

 different from the male's love notes in summer, Bob-White. 

 It is a clear, loud whistle, suggestive of fear, timidit}^ and 

 anxiety, and is familiar and well understood by all sports- 

 men, as this whistle is often imitated by the sportsmen to 

 draw a response, and the birds from their hiding places. 

 The Partridges, with care, pains and attention, may be 

 easily raised in confinement, and may be induced to propa- 

 gate and maj^ be trained into a condition of pai-tial domes- 

 tication. Baird, Brewer and Eidgway state that Eev. Dr. 

 Bachman, of Charleston, S. C, succeeded in obtaining, by 

 hatching under a Bantam Hen, a brood of young Quails. 

 Confining them with their foster mother for a few days, 

 they were soon taught to follow her like young chickens. 

 They were fed at first on curds, but soon began to eat 

 cracked Indian corn and millet. They were permitted to 

 stray at large in the garden, one wing of each having been 

 shortened. They became very gentle, and were in the 

 habit of following Dr. Bachman through his house, seating 

 themselves on the table at which he was writing, occasion- 

 ally in play, picking at his hands, or running oft' with his 

 pen. At night they nestled in a coop in the garden. Al- 

 though these pets had no opportunity of hearing any other 

 sounds than those of the jioultry, the male birds commenc- 

 ed in the spring their not unmusical note of Bob-White, at 



