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THE OOLOGIST. 



THEOOLOGIST 



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Can Quails be Domesticated. 



Some one asks through the Oologist 

 if the Bob-white or Quail can be domest- 

 icated. I will tell you an incident that 

 came under my own observation. 

 When I Avas quite small my parents 

 moved into the country, thinking the 

 free life of a rural home would he much 

 healthier for growing children than to 

 keep them housed up in town in a sea 

 of smoke and ])ricks and mortar. And 

 so it proved to be. 



There were wvy few Quails on the 

 ]ilace wlum \\v. moAcd tliere, tliey \ui\- 

 ing been killinl olf l)y lumters from a 

 town close by. 



After father took possession he Avtniid 

 not kill the Quails nor permit others to 

 do so; consequently it was not long 



until the l)irds of all kinds began to<» 

 know where tliey Avere welcome and 

 Avhere they u'ould be ])r<)U'(tcd The 

 Quails' eacli year hccanic more })lent'- 

 ful and not so wild, luitil one ])air more 

 trusting than the rest, came into the 

 garden and made their nest in a bed of 

 onions only a fcAV yards from the house. 

 They grew so tame avc could part tlie 

 onions and look in upon their quiet 

 home Avitliout the old one leaving her 

 nest. After the young were hatched 

 the}^ remained aljout the garden until 

 winter set in, when they went to the 

 woods for shelter, returning occasion- 

 ally, each time Avith their numbers 

 diminished. 



When spring came the old ones came 

 Ijack and took up their abode in the 

 garden again, this time making their 

 nest under the projecting end of a rail 

 but a feAV feet from Avhere they had 

 built the year before. When the fe- 

 male had ]:»een sitting aliout ten days 

 Ave AA^ent out one morning to tind her 

 torn from her nest and devoured, pre- 

 sumably by some proAvling old cat. 

 This, Ave thought, Avould scare our 

 friends aAvay, but the remaining bird 

 mourned his loss for two ov three days, 

 then took possession of the nest, and, 

 to our great surpi'ise, hatclied every 

 egg. They scarcely Avent outside of 

 tlie garden until they had their groAvth. 

 They took great delight in getting into 

 some hotbeds in the garden to dust 

 their feathers, often causing sad havoc 

 among the young plants. If they had 

 turned' every hot-bed in Christendom 

 topsy-turA'ey, it Avould not haAC lowered 

 them any in our estimation for they 

 seemed almost a part of oiu- family. 

 We never tried t<; house tliem, but for 

 seA'eral years A\'ould jjlant a ])atch of 

 pop-corn in the garden for them to stay 

 in, and to ha\e a ])laee to feed them. 

 We fed them princi])ally on sorgmn 

 seed, gathered in the fall and stored 

 aAvay for their especial benefit. They 

 kncAv as Avell as a liock of chickens. 



