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Identifier: americangamebird00grin (find matches)
Title: American game-bird shooting
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938
Subjects: Game and game-birds Hunting
Publisher: New York, Forest and stream publishing company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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SCALED QUAIL places. All observers agree that they are exceedinglyshy and hard to approach, and that they are swift run-ners, dodging in and out among the bushes with thegreatest ease, and soon out of sight. Even if flushedthey fly but a short distance, when they alight andrun again. Like many other gallinaceous birds, theygreatly enjoy taking dust and sand baths, and at suchtimes they act much like young chickens. In the eve-ning they retire to roost, to ridges and knolls, and thebirds call to each other until the bevy has come to-
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Scaled Partridge. SCALED PARTRIDGE; BLUE QUAIL 83 gether again. Sometimes the birds collect in consid-erable numbers, 60 or 80 having been seen together. The breeding season begins in March, and the youngbirds are usually hatched by the first of June, or earlier.There is some reason to think that two broods arereared. The number of eggs ranges from 9 to 16, andis commonly about 11 or 12. The eggs are sometimesdead white, or again pale buff in color, and are dottedwith very small reddish brown spots scattered overthe entire egg. The scaled partridge is not a bird pursued for sport.It is true that many of them are killed by gunners, butmerely for the food they afford, the birds being pottedon the ground at every opportunity. Of all the quail, this is the most difficult to make lieto dog or man. In Arizona the army officers used tohunt them on horseback, following up the birds andshooting them whenever and however they could. The scaled quail, which is also sometimes calledwhite topknot

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  • bookid:americangamebird00grin
  • bookyear:1910
  • bookdecade:1910
  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:Grinnell__George_Bird__1849_1938
  • booksubject:Game_and_game_birds
  • booksubject:Hunting
  • bookpublisher:New_York__Forest_and_stream_publishing_company
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Institution_Libraries
  • booksponsor:Smithsonian
  • bookleafnumber:114
  • bookcollection:biodiversity
  • bookcollection:americana
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