26 THE AUDUBON BUDE Lim 
Protect the Quail 
To the Citizens of the State: 
To the real sportsman: I want to impress upon him that our quail 
is on the decrease rapidly, and it’s up to him to help me preserve the 
remnant of a once plentiful game bird. The future status of the quail 
rests entirely with the sportsmen and farmers of this state, and unless 
we get full and complete co-operation, the quail will soon be on the verge 
of extinction. 
With good roads being built over the state, the automobile, the 
automatic and pump gun in the hands of a game hog, will very soon 
exterminate this game little bird, and if he is to be saved, we had better 
begin now to protect him. 
One of the most reprehensible of all game violations is the boot- 
legger of quail, and serving them for pay at fashionable and exclusive 
clubs. We have secured fines aggregating more than one thousand 
dollars for bootlegging quail, and we hope these offenders will be bird 
shy in the future. It must be stopped, and the housewife with a tea 
party on hand better substitute lobsters in the future for her guests, for 
it is as much a violation to buy quail as it is to sell them, and we will 
prosecute to the limit, regardless of her social or financial standing. 
C. P. WILLIAMs, 
State Game Warden. 
Texas Now Importing Live Quail from 
Mexico 
EN years ago we began to warn the sportsmen of Texas to give their 
quail a square deal or lose their supply. Many persons will remember 
the beautiful picture of an automobile covered with a solid mantle of 
dead bob-white quail. 
Now the people of Texas are importing Mexican quail by the 
thousand, and distributing them over the state, in efforts to re-stock 
some of the areas in which a once very abundant quail supply has been 
practically exterminated. At the same time the cotton-growers of Texas 
are losing millions of dollars annually by the ravages of the cotton-boll 
weevil, which is fed upon by quail,—when there are any! 
Mexican quail are also being brought to Long Island for “coloniza- 
tion’’; that doesn’t work,—for the benefit of the quail-shooters who 
have been holding up their hands to testify that “quail are increasing 
on Long Island.” We love to see quail-butchers sink their money in 
live quail that can’t make good! W.E Een 
From Our Vanishing Game Published by the Permanent Wild Life 
Protection Fund, New York Zoological Park, New York. 
