| Show good bob white the male quail or bob white deserves honorable mention among gallinaceous birds because he is particularly good to his wife lie he always helps helpa her to hatch her eggs and if anything keeps I 1 beep her away will w ill take the whole duty on himself this is particularly attested ky by a writer quoted by capt bendere lien dire in his life histories of north americal Ameri line caa birds lie ife says in injure injune june while I 1 was on a visit to dr J M pickett Pic ett of Ce darville ala he informed i me of having seen a male bob white lahi incubating he had visited the neat at various arious times on different days and always found the male bird on the nest wishing to be an eye witness of so interesting a sight I 1 rod rode several mil miles es with the doctor to the nest there we found bob white faithfully warming his treasures but not into life the eggs were never hatched dr pickett frequently went to the nest until u antil long after the period of incubation had elapsed and finding that the eggs would not hatch he destroyed them to prevent the useless occupation of the nest by the male the female had bad probably been dead some hours before the male found the ne nest t seated hence the egge cooled and would not hatch |
