. L'American natural history : une base de connaissances utiles des animaux supérieurs de l'Amérique du Nord . L'histoire naturelle. 242 OEDEKS BIEDS D'UPLAND-BIEDS-jeu. BOB-BLANC. Comme le montre le schéma précédent, il n'y a pas de vrai faisans en Amérique sauver ceux qui ont été introduits de Chine et du Japon. Tous les oiseaux à qui ce nom s'applique correctement l'habitent l'Ancien Monde. La famille des tétras. Tetraonidae. Notre vieil ami la politique " Quail" s'appelle maintenant Bob-White l dans tous les oiseaux modernes- livres, mais à environ cinquante millions d'Américains c'est encore, et sera toujours, la caille. C'est

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. The American natural history : a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America . Natural history. 242 OEDEKS OF BIEDS—UPLAND GAME-BIEDS. BOB-WHITE. As the preceding diagram shows, there are no true pheasants in America save those that have been introduced from China and Japan. All the birds to which that name correctly applies inhabit the Old World. THE GROUSE FAMILY. Tetraonidae. Our dear old friend the Common " Quail" is now called Bob-White l in all the modern bird- books, but to about fifty million Americans it is yet, and ever will be, the Quail. It is our longest-known and most widely known Ameri- can game-bird, and it is almost wholly a United States bird. It is at home from Maine and Flor- ida to Texas, the western border of Oklahoma and South Dakota. In very many eastern lo- calities, however, it has been almost exterminated by excessive shooting, and during the past ten years, Mr. Charles Payne, of Wichita, Kansas, has caught and shipped east fully hvo million live quail for use in restocking quailless game- 1 Co-li'nus virginianus. Average length, 10 inches. preserves. The extermination of desirable spe- cies always costs money. The call of this bird is one of the most cheer- ful sounds in nature, and for carrying qualities it is far-reaching. From the heart of a hazel thicket one hears his loud, shrill whistle, saying "CLERK-*/ CLERK-*/ CLERK-*/" until everything rings again. On the hurricane deck of a high stump, or the top rail of a fence, he poises himself, points his bill at the sky, swells out his white throat and whistles long and loud, "Bob! bob! WHI-EET!" But the feathered rascal knows very well when the close season is on; and when the "law is off" he sings very small. That many men enjoy Quail shooting is no cause for wonder or reproach. The birds he close in the edge of the brush until the dogs are ready to tread upon them, when " Burr-r-r-r!" the covey explodes in t

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