for food, and woe be to the weaklings who are unable to keep up with the 

 mother, who travels sometimes quite rapidly, paying no attention to her 

 weak progeny that falls by the wayside, the result being that none but the 

 healthy, robust bird ever reaches maturity, therefore there is no danger of 

 sportsmen killing a sick quail. 



In the morning our quail take to the valleys to feed, but when disturbed 

 they fly to the hillsides and high brush, and until they are driven out they 

 are almost inaccessible, but when driven back to the lowlands and low cover 

 they will lay very readily, and the sportsman with a good dog and good gun 

 will soon find himself enjoying a paradise. 



It is to be hoped that this noble little bird will never again be made a 

 subject of the pot-hunter traffic, and that the law against selling quail will 

 be made more strenuous year by year as public sentiment is brought to 

 realize the value of the bird as it really is, and to deprecate making it an 

 article of commerce, the more especially where, as in California, meat of 

 other kinds is abundant, cheap, and always accessible. We have here a 

 large, enthusiastic, and financially well equipped Fish and Came Protective 

 Association, through which we hope arid expect in the near future to add 

 to our game birds the Chinese pheasant, which bird, while prospering better, 

 probably, in a thickly wooded country, is, as I am advised, a success in 

 places where low cover is abundant, and this certainly is the case in San 

 Diego. Our mountain quail are not as abundant here as in some other 

 portions of the State, nor are pigeons plentiful, but of those matters, includ- 

 ing ducks and fish, more may be said at another time. 



As to all other matters relating to the quail, every portion of the State 

 is more or less affected by the same adverse elements that affect us here — 

 the pot-hunter, the game-hog, the small boy, the bird-hawk, and coyote. 



GAME IN KERN COUNTY 



E. A. PTJESCHEL. 

 Secretary Kern County Fish and Game Protective Assot^atlon 



DURING the months of July, August, and September I was camped on 

 Greenhorn Mountain, about sixty-five miles northwest of Bakers- 

 field, on Bull Run Creek. This stream is full of trout some fifteen 

 inches in length, and owing to its distance from Bakersfield, and 

 also to bad trails, is rarely visited by sportsmen. Bear and deer are very 

 plentiful in this locality, and if a hunter is anxious to kill a bear he will have 

 little difficulty. We killed several after having had them treed by dogs, and 

 we caught two in traps. Mountain lions are also plentiful in this mountain. 

 Small game, grouse, mountain quail, gray squirrels, and wild pigeons are 

 found in abundance. The forest service of the United States has at present 

 a force of men at work on a trail, which will be completed early next season. 

 This trail intersects the wagon road about fifteen miles from Kernville and 

 twelve miles from Glenville, and will make it possible for sportsmen to get 

 to the best fishing and hunting grounds in the State in three days from 

 Bakersfield. 



There are other localities in this county where large and small game 

 can be found in abundance and can be reached by wagon road. The San 

 Emedio and Tejon mountains are accessible by wagon road and can be 

 reached in two days from Bakersfield. In the vicinity of the San Emedio 

 mountains, on the property of Miller & Lux, there is a band of about five 

 hundred elk, which is, I think, the largest band in the United States. They 

 are, however, protected by State laws and cannot be killed. 



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