No.i.\ COUES'S OENITH. BIBLIOGRAPHY PEEDICID^. 829 



1875. "Wahkonza." Dearth of Quail [Ortyx virgiuiana]. < ^m. Sporisma.i, v, 



Mar. 20, 1875, p. 394. 



1876. " Alpha." The Quail [Ortyx virginiaua] Question. < Bod and Gun, viii, Apr. 



29, 1876, p. 67. 

 Scent concealed by crouching bird. 



1876. Anon. Migratory Quail [importation of Coturnix communis into the United 

 States]. <^ Forest and Stream, vi. Mar. 30, 1876, p. 115. 



1876. Anon. The Migration of the quail [Coturnix communis, at Malta]. <^Bodand 

 Gun, viii, July 8, 1876, p. 231. 

 Quoted from London "Times." 



1876. Anon. [Hallock, C] [Success in] Taming quail [Ortyx virginiana]. <^For- 



est and Stream, vii, Oct. 5, 1876, p. 137. 

 1876. . Quail [Ortyx virginiana], etc. <^Bod and Gun, viii, Apr. 15, 1876, 



p. 34. 

 Several letters upon the question of their withholding scent. 



1876. "Arkansas." Quail [Ortyx virginiana, migratory or not?] <^BodandGun, 

 vii, Feb. 12, 1876, p. 307. 



1876. Brewster, W. Can quail [Ortyx virginiana] withhold their scent? <^Bod 

 and Gun, vii, Feb. 26, 1876, p. 344. . 



Considers this power possessed by certain individual birds — not necessarily by all of cer- 

 tain bevies. 



1876. " C. F. W. B." Do Quail [Ortyx virginiana, withhold scent ?], etc. < Bod and 

 Gun, viii, May 13, 1876, ^. 99. 

 Views of German sportsmen. 



1876. "Corduroy", and Others. Can Quail [Ortyx virginiaua] Withhold Their 

 Scent ? < Bod and Gun, vii. Mar. 25, 1876, p. 402. 



"CORDUEOT" denies the power, and thints concealment and the state of the weather fur 

 nish an explanation. Blunt, Geoege "W., says isTo; scent naturally does not leave the bird 

 while it remains quiet. "Perdix chicagoensis" af&rms it, as a conscious act by the bird, 

 which can control the escape of scent from its skin at certain times. 



1876. COUES, [E.] Dr. Cones upon Quail, etc. <^Bodand Gun, viii, Apr. 1, 1876, p. 9. 

 Cannot voluntarily withhold scent ; that is to say, by any act of conscious volition. But 

 certain actions of the birds, without design, result in the retention of the effluvium — which 

 may al/o be favored or hindered by certain surroundings, as state of the atmosphere. 



1876. " Harry." In the Woods. < Bod and Gun, vii, Jan. 8, 1876, p. 226. 



Comments upon article "Bob-white" in Harper's New Monthly Magazine (xxxix, 1869, pp. 

 505-512, figs. 1-6), and additional notes on Ortyx virginiana. 



1876. [INGERSOLL, E.] Eed-legged Partridges [imported into the United States]. 

 <^ Forest and Stream, v, Feb. 3, 1876, p. 404. 



1876. Linden, C. The Scent of Birds [Ortyx virginiana]. <^Bod and Gun, viii, Apr. 

 1,1876, p. 6. 

 Discussion of the subject of withholding scent by quail. 



1876. Loudon, F. Can Quail [Ortyx virginiana] withhold their Scent? <^Bod and 

 Gun, vii, Feb. 23, 1876, p. 339. 

 Believes they can. 



1876. "Old Gunner." Quail [Ortyx virginiana]. Guns, etc. <^ Bod and Gun, Yii, 

 Feb. 26, 1876, p. 338. 

 Quail do at timqs withhold their scent; and certain bevies are marked by peculiar habits. 



1876. "Reader." Quails [Ortyx virginiana] Withholding Their Scent. <^ Bod and 

 Gun, vii. Mar. 11, 1876, p. 371. 



Bird retains odor upon its feet by covering them the instant it alights so closely that air 

 cannot escape from beneath the feathers ; certain bevies inherit this particularly ; and the 

 practice is specially observable in those bevies most assailed by hawks. 



