BOB WHITE, THE GAME BIRD OE AMERICA. 485 
partridge hatches one-third more males than of December, that would average eight 
females. ounces.” Dr. Lewis, in his “American 
The average weight of Bob White varies Sportsman,” gives a record of ten braces 
considerably with the nature of his feeding- of birds shot in the neighborhood of Mount 
I’ARTKIDGES (PERDIX CINEREA), MALE AND FEMALE. 
ground, the weather preceding the time when 
he is shot, and the age of the bird. Probably 
six and three-quarter ounces is a fair average 
weight. In Southern Maryland, I have shot 
a few cock-birds which weighed eight ounces 
and one-quarter, and one even as high in 
w'eight as eight 'ounces and three-quarters. 
Fifty birds shot in the middle of North Caro- 
lina, last December, averaged seven ounces. 
Those birds were cocks and hens, old and 
young, just as they came to bag in the field. 
Mr. Frank Schley says : “ I have often killed 
a bag of birds along the Monocacy and 
Potomac bottoms in Maryland, in the month 
Holly, New Jersey, that averaged eight 
ounces. 
While the woodcock and Wilson snipe are 
fated to disappear as civilization robs them of 
their restricted feeding-grounds. Bob White, 
if protected by the enforcement of judicious 
game laws, will thrive in the midst of culti- 
vated lands, and will continue to test the 
gamecraft and marksmanship of future gen- 
erations. He is destined to remain the game- 
bird of America, and he is worthy of it ; for 
there is none more impetuous in his flight, 
none that has such extended range in his 
feeding-grounds and coverts, none that de- 
