370 . CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME 



The plan to be followed this year will, it is hoped, result in the 

 completion of the quota. Briefly, it involves the establishment of a 

 base of operations at San Quintin, a Lower California seaport. There 

 the birds will be held, sorted, banded, and then shipped to California 

 by boat in lots of at least ten thousand. The birds will be taken to San 

 Quintin at the close of each day's trapping activities and need not be 

 held as they were at San Telmo. The quarters available at the seaport 

 are spacious and will allow the birds to be held with a minimum of 

 injury. The altered method of procedure should finally result in better 

 quail shooting in southern California. 



