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Taming and domestication is an easy matter with these 

 birds. In all cases, however, where the eggs have been 

 hatched under a hen at liberty, the Quail chicks have run 

 away to the woods as soon as the leaves have turned sear in 

 the fall and never come back. They sang their "Ah, Bob 

 White!" just as clearly before they had ever heard one 

 of their kin as any woodland-bred Quails could do. It is 

 quite common to re-colonize portions of the Eastern States 

 when they have become depopulated, and an effort made 

 some years ago to introduce these birds into the Salt Lake 

 Valley of Utah was eminently successful. Within the past 

 few years some of the West India Islands have been colo- 

 nized, but attempts to acclimatize the birds in England and 

 Ireland have proved most signal failures. 



