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...pheasants shot by 138 hunters, cracks lost 19.4%, average shooters 36%, novices 39.4%. Losses might have been higher if the ground had not been snow-covered, making it easy to spot fallen birds. Quail-shooting is illegal in Iowa, but the researchers got a few figures from Missouri. Three hunters, using fairly well-trained dogs, shot 131 quail, lost 76% of them. Four oldtimers, using first class dogs, lost only two out of 46 birds. Five dogless rabbit-hunters who took shots at quail on the side lost just half of the 24 they...
...five or six years have quail been so plentiful as this year on the Ames Plantation. And this year Hobart Ames was able to show his guests many a covey of the curious red quail which, discovered on his place, he has been fostering ardently. These birds, which he believes to be a rare species rather than a mutation, have all the characteristics of plain bob white but their plumage is a dark reddish brown, solid except for, on some specimens, one round white spot on the breast. From three cocks and a hen trapped five years ago Mr. Ames...
...Quail-hunting on the Gillisonville, S. C. preserves of Charles S. Haight, Manhattan admiralty lawyer, dapper Jean Tillier...
Spring plowing was getting under way in Georgia's fat black fields last week. Peepers were already loud in the "branches" (brooks) and the doves and quail had started pairing. Along the red clay roads trundled wagonloads of grey cottonseed to market. A faint green was beginning to tint the woods. The season was getting along, but Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in his white cottage among the pines at Warm Springs, had not yet announced his Cabinet or perfected his "New Deal...
...year played tackle on Tulane's football team, was its light-heavyweight boxer. Now he is at Harvard. Mr. Zemurray, when in Boston, lives at the Ritz. In Tangipahoa Parish 50 mi. north of New Orleans he has a vast country place, stocked with wild deer, pheasant and quail. Its artificial lakes are planted with duck potato to lure wildfowl. It also has a golf course on which its owner occasionally breaks 100. Mr. Zemurray endowed a Department of Middle American Research at Tulane for $1,000,000, gave it the famed Gates collection of Mayan relics...