Bobwhite 



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r -^ Temporary Abundance (or irruption) 

 -^ (left : first year, right : last year) 



^ Temporary Occurrence 

 - first- year right: last year.) 



Abundant 

 afterHinckleyl / 

 Rredfwgs-) \/,\ 



mr T 



QUAIL-LESS AREA 

 (No quail now ; ho eviden 



of quail in past) 

 ] NEARLY QUAIL-LESS ARE, 

 |x |(rew quail now; no evidence 

 of past abundance) 

 IRRUPTIVE AREA 

 Few quail now but evidence 



of sporadic abundance 

 REGULAR RANGE 

 Quail in every township 



PLANT 



(Date below i date last seen 

 to left) 



DISTRIBUTION AND BEHAVIOR 

 OF QUAIL IN 



WISCONSIN 



Quail rare m 

 1897 (Walker) 



MAP 7 



The irrupdve zone, like all other quail lines in Wisconsin, extends not east 

 and west, but northwest and southeast. 



The term "irruption" is here used in quotation marks because the phenomenon 

 observed was probably not an irruption in the true sense of a migratory invasion 



