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66. ANGIALITIS MELODA (Ord). PIPING PLOVER. (277) 
A not uncommon spring and fall migrant in Vigo County. There was one 
specimen in Dr. Scoyell’s collection, also one in Mr. Blatchley’s. Mr, Fred 
Clearwaters found it common near Greencastle. 
No records for the other counties. 
67. COLINUS VIRGINIANUS VIRGINIANUS (Linnzeus). BOB-WHITE. (289) 
During the years of my residence at Bloomington (1881-83 and 1885-86), 
the Bob-white was rather rare in Monroe County, although it had formerly 
been quite abundant. 
In Vigo County it was never very common from 1886-1891, and it is prob- 
ably even less so now. A female was collected at Honey Creek, April 20, 
1889. A pair (male and female) obtained in the Terre Haute market, 
November 21, 1889, and another pair, December 1, 1890. In those days 
market hunting was legal and Quail and other game birds were often seen 
in the market. 
During my boyhood days the Bob-white was a common bird in Carroll 
County. On practically every farm of 80 to 160 acres several coveys might 
usually be found during the fall and winter. They would frequent the 
cornfields in which the fodder was in the shock. ‘There they were usually 
able to get at some of the ears of corn or to find shelled grains upon 
which they fed. If not disturbed, the covey would sometimes roost in the 
base of one of the shocks. Usually, however, their roosting place was on 
the ground in some clump of briars or thicket in the edge of the woods near 
the cornfield. At night the birds of a covey huddle or sit very close to- 
gether on the ground under the protection of a bunch of grass, briars or 
small bushes, all with their tails toward the center and their heads all 
pointing outward. Sometimes when the snow is deep the Quail are unable 
to get the necessary food and, becoming weakened, the whole covey freezes 
to death. I remember one very cold winter day when I was hunting rab- 
bits and came upon a large covey of Quail, all frozen to death. One taken 
December 2, 1878; July 4, 1882, nest with 22 stale eggs: June 20, 1885, nest 
with 11 somewhat incubated eggs. 
The winter of 1884-5 in Carroll County was unusually severe and the 
quail suffered greatly. I found several frozen to death. I recall seeing 
only one live bird (a male) in January, and that was in Burlington Town- 
ship, near the Asbury school house. On April 26, I saw a female in a wheat- 
field near the Camden depot, the only one seen since January. September 
14, 1906, six or seven seen by Miss Ava Evermann in her father’s orchard in 
Burlington. 
Fifty years ago it was a common practice to trap the quail. <A figure-4 
slat trap was used. This was set in some suitable place which a flock of 
quail had been observed to frequent. The snow was carefully cleaned away 
from under the trap and from a fan-shaped area in front. then corn or 
wheat was scattered over the cleared ground especially under the trap. The 
quail coming upon the grain outside would feed upon it and would gradually 
be led into the trap which would be thrown and often the whole flock 
captured. This was, of course, a very unsportsman-like method, but it was 
in those days regarded as perfectly proper. Of course, this method would 
not be tolerated now. 
