ILLUSTRATIONS 



Wild mallards flying from Manitoba marsh . Frontispiece 



PACING PAGE 



Ring-neck pheasants on Evans' Game Farm . . . . i6 



Hatching-coops, State Game Farm, Sherburne, New York . 17 



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Breeding-pen for pair of quails, Storrs, Connecticut . 

 Typical hatching and rearing coop, Sherburne, New York 

 Bob-white breeding-stock before pairing .... 



Group of young bob-whites feeding 



Main holding-pen for quails, Storrs, Connecticut 

 Quail rearing-field, with covered corral in near corner 

 Buckwheat left standing for birds . 

 Nest with twenty-four eggs of bob-white in a coop . 



Day-old quails and empty egg-shell 



Young quail watching a fly 37 



Bantam with quail chicks 37 



Muriel, daughter of author, feeding little bob- whites . . 44 

 Bob-white stock of T. A. Howell in winter quarters ... 44 

 Ruth, daughter of Supt. Dirks, with California or vaUey 



quails 45 



Scaled or "blue" quails 45 



Young ruff ed grouse strutting 48 



Tame ruffed grouse, captured wild 48 



F. N. Manross and young ruffed grouse which he raised . 49 

 U. S. Senator George P. McLean feeding his young ruffed 



grouse 49 



Ruffed grouse chicks 64 



Young ruffed grouse three weeks old 64 



Sharp-tailed grouse on nest . 65 



Rearing-field and shelter-house for wild turkeys . ... 65 



