Quail Picking up Lead Shot

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A specimen of scaled quail (Callipepla squamata pallida) found dead late in the winter of 1948 in a grit-deficient area of central N. Mex. formerly heavily shot over by bird hunters was detd. to contain 13 spent shot in its gizzard. No evidence of violence, disease, starvation or exposure was found. The possibility is advanced that the bird may have died of Pb poisoning. Few, if any, similar cases in quail appear to have been reported in the U. S.

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