


Census Data WC Brewer of Grays Lake, who lives in the best of the Lake 

County Hungarian range,estimates that there are 50 pairs per square mile 
in the vicinity of his farm this spring. This is 1 bird per 63 acres,as 
compared with 1 bird per 4 acres derived fron Maxwell as the average for 
English estates.Probably double this humber,or 1 bird per 3 acres, would 
be a fair estimate of the fall population. This would represent very good 
stocking in regular quail country, It may be concluded that the best of 
the Hungarian range in northeastern Illinois is fully stockea. 
Nadelhoffer estimated that he had 8 ¢6 10 coveys on the square mile 
aurrounding his farm in Lake County last fall,with about 15 birds to the 
covey. This could be a bira per 4 acres and checks satisfactorily with 
the Brewer census. 
Graham estimates that the ratio between pheasants and Hungarians 
hear Fox Lake is 2 to 1,but that near Libertyville the opposite is the 
case. Eldredge estimates that in McHenry County ringnecks outnumber Hun- 
garians by 10 to 1,but since he also states that he can flush 100 pheas- 
ants per day, this ratio may be consi dered exaggerated. 
Hungarians occupy only a fraction of the total of the block mapped 
as established range ,possibly 4 of: it. Within the occupied ground, however, 
they may be considered to be just as abundant as queil would be in a good 
quail country,and possibly nearly as abundant as pheasants are in the 
same region, 
Phenology Brewer found a nest with 4 eggs on April 23, which indicates 
that April 20 is the date on which leying begins in the Chicago area, 
. Wilson,who watched a covey all winter on his farm at Marengo,says 
the covey broke up as soon as the snow disappeared. I was unable to locate 
any other observers who had seen these birds in covies during April. It 


