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Game Survey of the North Central States 



Reverting to Missouri, it is worthy of note that the Ozark and prairie "curves" 

 substantially parallel each other and also the curve for the State as a whole. This 

 indicates that the figures from which all three are composed reflect the operation 

 of some orderly system, that is, that the data are good. 



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QUAIL ABUNDANCE BY STATES 



Percentage of Samples in Various Density Classes 



in 1928-9 



Aldo {eopoLd,rf.M..Wlghl, 

 A. 



0.5-1.0 1-2 



2-4 4-8 8-16 



DENSITY CXASS, ACRES PER QUAIL, 



CHART 1 



16-32 



over 32 



Chart 1 shows that the average farm in the good quail range of Missouri and 

 Indiana has a quail for every three acres, or about three covies on the farm. Arbi- 

 trarily discounting for the error arising from under-representation of poor range, 

 it seems probable that Missouri and Indiana as a whole actually have a quail for 

 every five acres, or two covies per 160 acre farm. 



