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Identifier: uplandgamebirds00sandyse (find matches)
Title: Upland game birds
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Sandys, Edwyn Van Dyke, Theodore S. (Theodore Strong), b. 1842
Subjects: Game and game-birds
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan company London : Macmillan & co., ltd.
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the task breeders and trainershave had. But the dog rises to the emergency,and as the quails annually learn more about therange of a gun and the speed of man, so the doglearns to go faster without flushing them and howto crowd them without passing the danger line,until the contest of brute against brute is now thefinest exhibition on earth, and enough to rewardone for a long tramp with the gun left at home. THE MOUNTAIN-QUAIL When we climb the larger hills of the PacificCoast to where the perennial brooks sing downdark defiles, and the columbine and the tiger-lilybegin to flame from deeper shades, we hear ach-cJi-ch-ch-ch-chee-ah from the dense green of thelilac or the bristling red of the manzanita, soplaintive yet so sweet that we are at once broughtto a halt. Or along the hills around your campyou may be awakened from your morning nap bya cloi-cloi-cloi-cloi-cloi as silvery as ever fell fromfeathered throat. And it may swell again ateveningtide where the mimulus pours its fountain
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CALIFORNIA MOUNTAIN-QUAIL The Mountain-Qiiail 387 of gold over the old dark rocks, or from the bedsof fern around the little meadow where the irisblows. When you hear the first call, which sometimessounds more like quit-quit-quit-qnit-queee-ah, youmay see a new quail steal softly out of sight. Orhe may turn to look at you with swelling breastof slate-blue tinged with the olive and brown thatrobe most of the back. A chestnut throat bor-dered with black on the sides, and that again withwhite, dark cinnamon underneath, with sides inbroad bands of black and reddish white, with twocurving stripes of white along the sides of theback, and two long, slender plumes of jet noddingbackward over the trim little head, the whole cov-ering a body apparently much larger and plumperthan that of Bob-white, catch your eye at once.Another hops upon a stone beside him to take abetter look at you, and then beside a fallen logyou mark another little back of rich olive-brown,while all around little feet go r

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