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Title: Bird-lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Conservation Periodicals
Publisher: New York, National Association of Audubon Societies
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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or grass seeds for food, one isapt to come across this species. And it is a bird worth meeting! Always sleek and well-groomed, except when molting, with an air of sedatebut active respectability, quick as a flash when danger threatens, the male,with his richer coloring and gracefully curved head-plumes, seems ever proudas he marches about, or runs swiftly along in search of food, while his consortfollows meekly in her more quiet garb. The Quail has several very distinct and differently used notes and calls.The most commonly noticed call is really more like a roosters crow than asong, and is easily imitated by a child, a woman, or even by aNotes man, if he has a good falsetto, and sounds something like ka-ka-kao, which is interpreted by various human beings to suit their fancy.Some claim that Mr. Quail says, Put that down! others that hedistinctly means, Cut it out! while the hunters know that he says, Yougo way! But this call is given only when he feels happy. There is a varia- (312)
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CALIFORNIA PARTKIDGE Order—Galling Family—Odontophorid/E Genus—LoPHORTYX Species—Californica National Association of Audubon Societies Educational Leaflet No. 58 The California Quail 313 tion to it, given with the same notes, but with a very different accent, thatsounds like ku-ku-ku! with the accent strongly on the second note, and thelast note faint. This means some sort of warning to the flock. It is not thereal danger signal, but is a sort of notice from the lookouts to be on guard, and,after a flock has been scattered, is used as well for a call signal to collect again,separated birds calling to each other from quite a distance. The real danger signal is very different, and sounds like dst-dst-dst, (drawing/;z the air or breath). Both male and female repeat this very rapidly severaltimes with a falling inflection, and when this danger call is sounded ex-citedly, the whole flock runs to cover. There is also a sort of twitteringthat the Quail make, either after a flock has

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