ILLUSTRATIONS 



Wild mallards flying from Manitoba marsh . Frontispiece 



FACING PAGE 



Ring-neck pheasants on Evans' Game Farm 16 



Hatching-coops, State Game Farm, Sherburne, New York . 17 



Breeding-pen for pair of quails, Storrs, Connecticut ... 17 



Typical hatching and rearing coop, Sherburne, New York . 1 7 



Bob- white breeding-stock before pairing 32 



Group of young bob- whites feeding 32 



Main holding-pen for quails, Storrs, Connecticut 33 



Quail rearing-field, with covered corral in near corner . . 33 



Buckwheat left standing for birds 33 



Nest with twenty-four eggs of bob-white in a coop ... 36 



Day-old quails and empty egg-shell 36 



Young quail watching a fly 37 



Bantam with quail chicks 37 



Muriel, daughter of author, feeding little bob- whites . . 44 



Bob-white stock of T. A. Howell in winter quarters . . . 44 

 Ruth, daughter of Supt. Dirks, with California or valley 



quails 45 



Scaled or " blue " quails 45 



Young ruffed grouse strutting 48 



Tame ruffed grouse, captured wild 48 



F. N. Manross and young ruffed grouse which he raised . 49 

 U. S. Senator George P. McLean feeding his young ruffed 



grouse 49 



Ruff ed grouse chicks 64 



Young ruffed grouse three weeks old 64 



Sharp- tailed grouse on nest 65 



Rearing-field and shelter-house for wild turkeys . ... 65 



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