CHAPTER XIII 



RESIDENT GAME BIRDS 



WHY have we so many potato bugs? 

 The answer in a Quail district is very 

 simple, we have shot little Bob- White. 

 Poor Bob-White, the best potato bug destroyer 

 in the country, has gone the way of all the finest 

 game birds. Outside of carefully guarded 

 sanctuaries where are these birds to be found? 

 Only in very secluded spots, and even there 

 they have not been safe from the gunner for 

 any length of time. Now that they have been 

 given greater protection it is to be hoped that 

 they will increase throughout their range. 



The birds of this species which the gunner 

 missed in his autumn "sports" were usually de- 

 creased in numbers by the snow in mid-winter, 

 for, since they do not migrate and the humans 

 for whom they worked for eight months of the 

 year usually forgot them for the remaining 

 four months when deep snow covered the 

 ground, they were often unable to get food. 

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