BIRDS OF PEASEMARSH 



bers. Though we are so far north, we hope to 

 try entertaining some Bob-White for a year, 

 to see if with plenty of food and shelter they 

 would thrive here. If a time should come 

 when in every potato patch we should hear 

 their whistling, Bob-White oh Bob-White, it 

 would indeed be a happy day for the farmer. 



When Bob- White eats weed seeds all winter 

 he has a great appetite for meat in the spring. 

 It is then that insects are at hand. Here are a 

 few facts that have been gathered by investi- 

 gators: "Everywhere Quail is an eater of 

 weed seeds and insect pests." "In two states it 

 has been estimated that Quail eat 1,341 tons 

 of weed seeds in every year." One farmer re- 

 ported his fields full of Quail and no damage 

 from weevils. Another report stated that one 

 hundred potato bugs were found in the crop 

 of a Quail, and still another farmer reported 

 that Quail were walking between his rows of 

 potatoes picking the bugs off perfectly clean 

 as they went. 



PARTRIDGE 



"What queer little brown hens out by the 

 barberry hedge," said our guest one October 

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