50 PROPAGATION OF WILD BIRDS 



pen by itself. Some can remain in the larger pen together, 

 if there are not enough small pens. 



4. Hatch out the eggs and raise the young with bantams. 

 Do not attempt incubators and brooders. 



5. Put the breeders back into the large pen together by 

 the latter part of July, unless they wish to incubate. 



6. In late fall or early winter catch up what young are 

 desired. The rest can be left wild to breed naturally next 

 summer. Feed regularly under shelters throughout the 

 winter, to hold them on the land, as also by planted areas 

 of grain left standing for them. In severe winter weather 

 coveys might be shut up and cared for, and let go again. 



Such plans, carefully followed, should prove practicable, 

 and should become an important factor in restoring quails 

 and other birds of this class. 



Quails of Other Species. Several other Western and 

 Southwestern species of quails are fully as easy to breed and 

 raise as the bob-white, and in some respects even easier. 

 Three kinds are of especial interest: The California or 

 valley quail is a very beautiful species with plumed head, 

 abundant in California and neighbouring states. It gathers 

 in large flocks, and is quite gentle and confiding. Gambel's 

 quail is similar, and abounds in New Mexico, Arizona, 

 and vicinity. The scaled or "blue quail" is a beautiful, 

 docile bird, of a pearly gray colour, with a tuft on the head, 

 and is found from the tablelands of Mexico north to western 

 Texas, New Mexico, and southern Arizona. Still another 

 kind is the mountain quail, of the Pacific Coast region 

 north of San Francisco, a larger bird than the others, 

 hardier, but wilder. 



Though the scaled, valley, and Gambel's quails come from 

 mild and even warm climates, they are remarkably hardy, 



