110 KNOWING BIRDS THROUGH STORIES 



by that was so fearless that she would allow those whom 

 she saw working about her every day to come within eight 

 or ten feet without showing the least fear, and one day 

 one of our faculty put his hand over her and stroked her 

 while she was on the nest, and even then she did not fly. 



Quails feed largely on weed seeds and insects, altho, of 

 course, at certain times of the year they eat grain. How- 

 ever, very little of the grain the quails eat would ever 

 be of value to man, for it is the waste grain that is scat- 

 tered over the fields and would never be gathered. 



Truly the Bobwhite deserves his name, "the farmer's 

 friend," for no bird that lives is more beneficial, more 

 cheery, and more worth encouraging than he. 



