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Taken By Surprise. 



These birds were received at Kalispell in the month of April, and 

 within a day thereafter they were liberated in covies of from six to 

 twelve birds, at places within a radius of one to ten miles distant 

 from Kalispell. The increase from this foundation stock has been 

 remarkable. It can be fairly said at this time that the cheerful whistle 

 of the "Bob White" is heard upon every farm in the Flathead Valley. 

 They have migrated down each side of Flathead Lake to and upon the 

 Flathead reservation. They are quite plentiful in and about Kalispell 

 as well as the towns of Whitefish, Columbia Falls, Somers, Big Fork, 

 Dayton, and southwesterly they have followed the old line of the Great 

 Northern Railroad to and beyond Marion. They have migrated along 

 the main line of the Great Northern Railroad into Lincoln County, 

 and are now found about Fortine and Eureka, covering a territory of 

 about one hundred and twenty-five miles in length; They frequent 

 the woods and underbrush bordering all streams in this valley and 

 appear to be much more abundant in such places than elsewhere. It 

 is conservatively estimated that there are now in the Flathead country 

 upwards of thirty thousand quail, the increase from the original im- 

 portation of this twenty-four dozen. 



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