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This call of the male bird is not difficult 

 to imitate. Hunters use it occasionally to 

 call a scattered covey together, or to locate 0ne3fouch of 

 the male birds, which generally answer the Nafure^^f^- 

 leader's call. I have frequently called a flock 

 of the birds into a thicket at sunset, and 

 caught running glimpses of them as they 

 hurried about, looking for the bugler who 

 iSl'j / called taps. 



t me, late one after- 



noon, in the great 



