58 FEATHERED GAME 
duced into several localities west of the Rockies 
and is said to be thriving and flourishing in 
these new homes. 
Unhappily for the sportsmen of Maine, New 
Hampshire and Vermont, in New England the 
Quail is resident only in the southern part, and 
is at any season but a rare straggler northward 
of Massachusetts. It is likely that our winter 
weather is too severe for him, or it may be 
that we lack grains and seeds for him to feed 
upon when the snows have come. At all events, 
though the sportsmen’s clubs of these sections 
have often liberated Quails in the hope that 
they might thus make a valuable addition to 
our list of game birds, they have rarely stayed 
with us longer than the first season, raising 
our hopes with their cheerful whistling through 
one brief summer and then disappearing to 
return no more. Whether they have moved 
southward at the approach of cold weather (by 
no means an unusual occurrence in the north, 
I think) or have failed to survive the winter, 
seems to be an open question. It is probable 
that the former is often the true reason for 
their disappearance, for with the small chance of 
a grain or seed diet when New England’s winter 
