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Excerpt from The Economic Value of the Bobwhite No birds have so firm a hold on public interest as the game birds. The laws enacted on their behalf exceed in number a hundred fold those relating to other kinds of birds. Among game birds the bobwhite is held by many to be preeminent. Easily accessible over a wide area of the country, small enough of size and swift enough of wing to test the sportsman's skill, delicious enough to please the epicure, to most sportsmen it is without a peer, the king of our feathered game. The name 'bobwhite' is derived from a fancied resemblance to this word in the familiar utterance of the bird. It has been adopted by several writers because of the inaccuracy of the two names by which the species is usually known - quail in the North and West and partridge in the South. The name quail' properly belongs to a smaller migratory bird of a different genus, found in the Old World, the quail of the Bible story; while 'partridge' in New England, universally applied to the rufi'ed grouse, is strictly the name of another Old World genus, though also used to designate the group to which bobwhites, quail, partridges, and other closely related birds belong. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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