
over-shooting. Nelson (1877) says of quail:"Still a common resident(in NE 
Illinois). . eExceedingly numerous in southern Illinois." One may infer 
from this that the decrease in the northeastern section begin in the sev- 
enties no sooner, whereas it is common knowledge that it did not begin in 
southern Illinois until the end of the century.Huff says it began about 
1905, and that a low ebb was reached in’-1912. By 1917 there was a partial 
recovery. Bowman says: that Shelby County held’up until 1924,but was heav- 
ily shot out in 1925 and 1926. 
There possibly never were a great many quail in the Lake region of 
northeast Illinois. Walker (1897) reports. them rare in Boone County, on d 
Present Status by Types. (see Map C) 

-At Belvidere in Boone County, Rowen says one can find « or o coveys 
= ra 2 > a oO PANY 1% Py te Ion hr Rrawayr 4 OTT Ch wen =wal- 
in a day. Progressing eastward to Waukegan in Lake County,Brewer says there 
— Tita TT 
are only a few coveys in the county. In Meher 
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knows of no quail.Progressing southward to Sycamore ,Vetzel knows of 10 cov- 
eys within a 6 miles radius. Sycamore end Belvidere are on the exact boun- 
dary of the Lake region. 
Not only is there this sharp boundary between the quail and 
ecountry,but there is also,in both the northern coun ities of Illinois and the 
a) 
southern counties o 
when 
erease westward to a degree not quite accounted for by tne difference in 
One might infer that quail have some aversion to glaciated country, bu 
Wisconsin a gradual decrease in quail eastward and in- 
for their relative abundance in the distinctly glaciated parts of ‘southern 
Michigen, and their fondness for pothole swamp cover in that state. 
In a broad way,quail are most abundant in the river breaks(| type 2)° an 
decreasingly so in ic, 1a, 1b; and la in the order. named. In fact t 
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