The Birds of Middlesex - A Contribution to the Natural History of the County (1866) (Hardcover)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: that place. That the Quail is a friend to the farmer, and a bird everywhere to be encouraged, the reader will be inclined to admit on perusing the following extract: " On examination of the food contained in about thirty Quails, shot at various times and places during winter and early spring, seven-eighths of it was found to consist of the seeds of weeds, such as the different species of plantain (Plantagci), persicaria (Polygonum, P. minus,