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has fairly closed in upon us, their prospect for 

 food must be slight indeed, and, knowing this, 

 Bob White takes no chances. In most cases 

 the birds for stocking our covers have been ob- 

 tained from southern localities, which fact 

 would seem to argue a less fitness to endure 

 the rigors of our winters. If the experiment 

 were to be tried with birds procured from the 

 northern part of the habitat of the Quail per- 

 haps the result would be more satisfactory; 

 surely there would be a larger percentage to 

 survive the winter among those that remained 

 with us. It is probable that such birds could 

 be successfully transplanted here, needing only 

 a chance to forage in some buckwheat field dur- 

 ing the two coldest months. (Just notice how 

 rarely a Quail is found frozen to death with 

 a full crop.) At all other seasons they would 

 surely be bountifully supplied with everything 

 necessary to Quail comfort. "Bob White " 

 has been successfully transplanted into Sweden, 

 and it certainly seems as though he ought to do 

 as well in northern New England. But where 

 we have failed Dame Nature is doing better, 

 and little by little these birds are becoming ac- 

 customed to our climate and conditions and are 



