36 QUAILOLOGY - DOMESTICATION, ETC. 



to obey commands and sing, as such they bring a good price. 



'^ "' Mating & Nesting U ^ 



Here we have a subject, that a portion of which at least, is 

 is very interesting, and worthy of more discussion than we are 

 able to give it here. There is much to be developed and 

 brought out in the breeding of the quail. There is room for 

 the true fancier to display his scientific ability and ingenuity in 

 breeding for points and markings, an opportunity for interest- 

 ing experiment and the improvment of species, or the cross 

 breeding and bringing out of new species, or as we may then 

 be permitted to say, breed, or strains. Every fancier has, or 

 will develop, an ideal of his own and will work toward that 

 standard. Nature has by virtue of different locations and 

 climatic conditions, given us four variations in the Bob- White 

 alone, to work upon— the Bob-White, Florida Bob-White Texan 

 Bob- White and Cuban Bob-White,— all varying in the complex- 

 ion of their dress, from a light ashy to a deep brownish red. 

 In these we have an opportunity to enrich marking as well as 

 a few points. 



Again we find other divisions of the quail family, some very 

 prolific but small in size, others of good size and attractive 

 plumage but not so prolific breeders. "Will they cross?" we 

 are asked. They will if conditions are right, but we are not 

 prepared to say in this edition what the product would be. We 

 had the misfortune to lose a setting, of a cross between a Val- 

 ley Partridge cock and a Bob- White hen, this season and are 

 exceeding sorry to so state as we had hoped to give the result 

 in this edition. Well, but there'll be trouble on hand when 

 you put them in a cage together!— Certainly there will, if the 

 conditions are not right, in which case you are liable to lose 

 your female. Use a little "Yankee Ingenuity" and the result 



