8 QUAILOLOGY - INTRODUCTION. 



Once started, the fascination, pleasure and profit in no 

 way relaxes to induce the abandonment of the culture. 



There is much in the future for the culture. Not only in 

 its advancement, but the improvement of the Bob- White, not 

 only in markings but in the production of larger and more pro- 

 lific new species. 



That crosses can be made and new varieties produced is yet 

 a matter of doubt with many. It has not been sufficiently ex- 

 perimented upon but to receive limited attention in this volume. 

 Our experience, obtained from rearing these beautiful birds in 

 the past ten years is related here, as well as notes from various 

 breeders throughout the United States, to whom we give due 

 credit. Also to the various Ornithological Reports and Works, 

 on their description, range, nesting and feeding habits and 

 peculiarities in a wild state, and to Dr. Shufeldt and others for 

 photographs and drawings of live birds. 



It is not to be deemed a foolish fad, but a profitable, pleas- 

 ant culture, the outcome of a desire to save from extermination 

 and replace in a domesticated state, and improve, one of the 

 noblest families of game birds. 



