Bob White. 229 
Taming and domestication is an easy matter with these 
birds. In all cases, however, where the eggs have been 
hatched under a hen at liberty, the Quail chicks have run 
away to the woods as soon as the leaves have turned sear in 
the fall and never come back. They sang their “Ah, Bob 
White!” just as clearly before they had ever heard one 
‘of their kin as any woodland-bred Quails could do. It is 
quite common to re-colonize portions of the Eastern States 
when they have become depopulated, and an effort made 
some years ago to introduce these birds into the Salt Lake 
Valley of Utah was eminently successful. Within the past 
few years some of the West India Islands have been colo- 
nized, but attempts to acclimatize the birds in England and 
Ireland have proved most signal failures, 
