THE QUAIL 



imitate it ! Sip nectar of fruit and honey of flower that you may 

 trill even sweeter, O ye favourites of protecting fortune, or soon 

 this plucky little gamester of the fields will win enough hearts 

 with his cheery whistle to place himself among you ! 



GENE STRATTON-PORTER. 



Limberlost Cabin, March 17, 1906. 



Revised, 1917. 



Proof that Mother Quail cuts the shells of her egg.* 

 her young at one time 



halves and releases all 



33.5 



