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of the lying on the inside. If there be a verge of tall 
grove-like timber trees, with no underwood, for some dis- 
tance, and then heavy coppice, they will probably have 
alighted close within the edge of the bushes, and run a few 
yards forward before squatting. 
If the wind be high, and they have entered the wood 
before it, they will often fly quite on to the extreme lee- 
ward side, particularly if it be the thickest portion, or if 
it have a bushy skirt running out into meadow land or 
stubbles, or again, if it have an old dry brush fence. 
Indeed, if at any part of the wood there be sucha 
fence, or if there be fallen trees with large prostrate tops, 
these should always be looked to with much pains or cau- 
tion. A low-flying bevy will often drop to them; a run- 
ning bevy will almost invariably stop in them; and if 
there be either ruffed grouse or hares in the wood, it 
will be in such places. 
IT must again here caution the young sportsman 
against imagining that he has marked a bevy of quail, 
because he has lost sight of them. All that he can do in 
that case, is, judging by their flight, the state of the wind, 
and the nature of the neighboring ground, to approximate 
the spot for which they have made, and, by the aid of his 
dogs, in due season to discover it. 
If he see them drop, that is another thing. Their 
mode of doing so is unmistakable. Quail never dart 
abruptly down, and very rarely, if ever, wheel round before 
they alight, but gradually lower their flight until they are 
close to the ground, when they throw themselves up with a 
particular motion, bringing their feet and tails down first, 
