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UPLAND GAME BIRDS 



about the Quail is of killing it, for a few ounces of meat on the 

 table. Because of its few pitiful mouthfuls of flesh, two mil- 

 lion gunners and four thousand lawmakers think of it only as a 



BOB-WHITE. 



bird to be shot, and eaten ! As a result, throughout the greater 

 portion of its former range, the Bob-White is surely and cer- 

 tainly on the verge of total extinction; and now many state 

 game commissions are vainly trying to supplant it by the 

 Hungarian partridge because the native Quail "can't live." 

 And sportsmen gravely discuss the "bag limit" and "enforce- 



