THE GUN AT HOME AND ABROAD 
misguided attempt was made some years ago to introduce it. Sportsmen 
in various parts of the States heard of the possibility of adding to their 
game list, and money for the purpose was speedily forthcoming. The 
original importations were released at various points in the northern 
States and Canada early in spring; the promoters of the experiment 
believing that the birds would breed there, and that their progeny would 
follow their natural instinct by moving southward at the approach of 
cold weather, and return to their birthplace in the following spring. 
Theoretically this seemed sound reasoning, but practically the experi- 
ment turned out a failure.”* 
The comprehensive title of the present work has made it necessary to 
consider the birds included in it in their haunts abroad as well as at home, 
and from the fact of the remarkably wide geographical distribution of the 
quail, it so happens that the smallest of them all — ^with the exception, 
perhaps, of the jack snipe — has taken us further away from home than any 
other bird on the list. 
J. E. HARTING. 
“Sandys and Van Dyke, Upland Game Birds (1902). 
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