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bevy occasionally scatters all over the adjoin- 

 ing country when it gets up. Of course, with 

 a good dog a man will generally start a few 

 birds from each bevy, but in heavy cover, and 

 where the birds have been shot at several 

 times, they get " educated " and play tricks 

 with the hunters. It is not at all uncommon 

 to put up a bevy of twenty-five or thirty birds 

 and then only get two or three quail out of it. 

 The bevy scatters in all directions on first ris- 

 ing, but most of them will drop down in one 

 direction. A few stray birds may go in an 

 entirely different direction from the main 

 body of the flock, and they may be hunted 

 later. Quail do not fly far as a rule, gener- 

 ally darting into cover again at from two to 

 three or four hundred yards. Sometimes they 

 will fly farther, and again drop in closer. It 

 depends on whether they have been hunted 

 and on the nature of the cover. 



It is simply amazing what a small bit of 

 cover will hide a quail, and how he will stick 

 to his hiding-place. Sometimes he will hug 

 the ground in the open woods under a tree 

 where the leaves are thickly scattered on the 

 ground, and although the dog is fairly slob- 



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