QUAIL SHOOTING 



IF a vote were to be taken among the men 

 who hunt with dog and gun from the 

 Mississippi valley to the Atlantic coast 

 and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf, to 

 determine the question of the most popular 

 game-bird, the quail would get the overwhelm- 

 ing majority of the votes. " Bob-white " is 

 a bird who fully deserves his popularity. No 

 bird in America gives as great sport with the 

 dog, the opportunity for fine work in the field 

 being unlimited in quail shooting. The quail 

 is a bird that has a friendly feeling for man, 

 and is found following the march of civiliza- 

 tion and the confines of the farms. The val- 

 ley- and mountain-quail of the west and 

 south-west cannot be compared to the true 

 " bob-white " for sport, being birds which 

 depend a great deal upon their legs to elude 

 the hunters, and living in a country where 

 good work by the dogs is almost impossible. 

 Then, too, these western and south-western 



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