62° FEATHERED GAME 
In the Southern States it is likely that two 
broods are sometimes raised in a season but 
this is certainly not the rule in New England. 
Where this does occur the male assumes all re- 
sponsibility for the first brood, thus leaving 
his mate free to care for the newcomers. 
During the summer Bob White leads a merry, 
happy-go-lucky life, with few, if any cares, but 
the winter months for such as remain in New 
England after the fall shooting is over must 
be a dreary time of hardship and hunger. In 
many cases they wander away to more favored 
districts further south. All through the north- 
ern range there seems to be a partial migra- 
tion of Quail southward at the approach of win- 
ter—not all, but a part of the Quail population 
leaving their summer homes until the spring 
commences. Those which remain to brave our 
snow and cold are apt to haunt the settlements 
and the outskirts of the villages, often inviting 
themselves to breakfast with the farmer’s hens 
and becoming for the time quite tame. The 
Quail has been domesticated with much success 
and breeds quite readily in captivity. 
Though not brilliantly colored ‘‘Bob White’? 
is a beautiful bird. His back and wings are 
