THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 



of its original weight. This means that for every one hundred 

 grams of raw liver available for food, but eighty-five grams are 

 available after cooking, showing a loss in weight of 15 per cent, 

 in the cooking. 



Put in another way, one hundred grams of cooked liver 

 costs ll'Yz per cent, more than an equal weight of raw liver. 

 In itself a serious difference, this added cost loses its importance 

 when the far greater food value of cooked liver is recalled. It 

 is worth while to add 17% per cent, to the cost to obtain an 

 increase in food value of from 48 to 200 per cent. Further 

 expansion of the arithmetic of the problem is not needed to 

 emphasize the fact that the experiments, so far as they go, 

 indicate that when liver is fed to young salmon that have just 

 absorbed their yolk sacs, it should, for reasons of economy, be 

 fed cooked. 



VARIETIES OF QUAIL IN OREGON. 



Differences in the Plumage of the Three Species Mentioned in 



the Game Laws. 



The following description will enable sportsmen to distin- 

 guish between the three species of quail mentioned in the Oregon 

 statutes so as to avoid violating the game laws: 



The mountain or plumed quail is the largest and most beau- 

 tifully colored quail in the state. It has slender black crest 

 feathers; the upper parts of the body are olive-brown, while the 

 throat and flanks are deep chestnut in color; the flanks also 

 have black and white bands. The breast is bluish-slate. This 

 is the common native quail through the greater part of Oregon, 

 especially in the entire mountainous or wooded districts from 

 the Cascades to the Pacific coast. 



The California, valley or little blue quail is a little smaller 

 than the mountain quail. It has black crest feathers that differ 

 radically from those of the mountain quail; they are narrow at 

 the base and wider at the top, curling toward the front, while 

 the crest of the mountain quail curves backward except when 

 the bird is running or excited, when it stands straight up. The 



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