Elementary textbook of economic zoology and entomology . elementarytextbo00kell Year: [c1915] 282 ECONOMIC ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY favorite for its flesh but it has been so persistently shot that its numbers have been greatly lessened. The Pheasants and Doves (OrdersGallincB and Columba}.- The Gall hue include most of the domestic fowls, as the hen, turkey, peacock and guinea fowls. They include also the chief game birds of most countries, as the grouse, quail, partridges, wild turkey, ptarmigan, etc. They all have the bill rather FIG. 129.—The common Eastern quail, or Bob-white, Colinus mr
Elementary textbook of economic zoology and entomology . elementarytextbo00kell Year: [c1915] 282 ECONOMIC ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY favorite for its flesh but it has been so persistently shot that its numbers have been greatly lessened. The Pheasants and Doves (OrdersGallincB and Columba}.- The Gall hue include most of the domestic fowls, as the hen, turkey, peacock and guinea fowls. They include also the chief game birds of most countries, as the grouse, quail, partridges, wild turkey, ptarmigan, etc. They all have the bill rather FIG. 129.—The common Eastern quail, or Bob-white, Colinus mrginianus. (Photograph by J. M. Slonaker.) short, heavy, convex and bony, adapted for picking up and crushing seeds and grains which compose their principal food. They are mostly terrestrial in habit and are sometimes known as the Rasores, or 'scratchers.' The eggs are numerous, and are laid in a rude nest or simply in a depression on the ground. In many of the species polygamy is the rule. The young are precocial. Among the more familiar wild gallinaceous birds
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