. American game in its seasons [microform]. Game and game-birds; Hunting; Gibier; Chasse. AMKKICAN GAME. riiibly llio cleanest of weeds ; luid ti riyht good nports- man, and good friend of mine, working on the same base jpei' contra^ says that, in driving Ins sliooting-cart and dogs througli a conntrj, lie has never fonnd it worth his while to sto]) and beat a district full of weedy and dirty farms, as such never contain Quail. If this may lead our farmers to consider that every live Quail does far more good on the farm, than the shilliiig earned by his cai)turo in the omnivorous trap; and the
. American game in its seasons [microform]. Game and game-birds; Hunting; Gibier; Chasse. AMKKICAN GAME. riiibly llio cleanest of weeds ; luid ti riyht good nports- man, and good friend of mine, working on the same base jpei' contra^ says that, in driving Ins sliooting-cart and dogs througli a conntrj, lie has never fonnd it worth his while to sto]) and beat a district full of weedy and dirty farms, as such never contain Quail. If this may lead our farmers to consider that every live Quail does far more good on the farm, than the shilliiig earned by his cai)turo in the omnivorous trap; and therefore to prohibit their sons and farm-boys from extei'- minating them at their utmost need, when food is scarce, and shelter hard to lind, my M-ords will not have been altogether wasted, nor my object nnattained. "Were I a larmer, I would hang it over my kitchen fire-place, inscribed in goodly cai^tals—'^ ^pare the Quail! If you would have clean fields and goodly crops, spare the Quail! So shall you spare yonr ; And now, in a few words, we will on to their nomen- clature, their distinctive marks, their regions of inhabit- ation, seasons, haunts and habits; and last, not least, liow, when, and'where lawfully, honorably, sportsnumly, and gnostically, you may and shall kill them. I will not, however, here pause long to discuss the point, whether they ought to be termed Quail or Par- tridge. Scientifically and practically they are neither, but a connecting link between the two subgenera. True Partridge, nor true Quail, \Qvy perdix, nor very coturnixy exists at all anywhere in America. Our bird, an inter-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Herbert, Henry William, 1807-1858. New York : C. Scribner
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