The early studies of bobwhite quail mobility in the Southeast by Stoddard (1931) and in Wisconsin by Errington (1933) led to the view that the species is quite sedentary, at least in those regions. This view was held by Leopold (1933) who summarized the earlier findings, stating that probably the bobwhite is the least mobile species of American game, and that nearly half the quail spend their life-spans within a quarter-mile of their birthplaces, while few ever wander more than a mile. More recent work in Texas (Lehmann, 1946), and in Wisconsin (Buss, Mattison, and Kozlik, 1947; Thompson and Mattison, 1950) has indicated that quail populations are considerably more mobile in these states than in the Southeast. In Texas, wholesale movements to nd from certain study areas were suspected; shifting was thought to occur both in summer, following failure of early nests, and in winter. In the Texas study, more than half the quail evidently moved decidedly more than a quarter-mile from their birthplaces. In Wisconsin, ingress to and egress from study areas were noted, especially in spring; quail movements in spring averaged a mile. Duck (1943) found pronounced movements of quail from upland summer range to bottomlands and dunes during winter in northwest Oklahoma. In this same region, Davison (in Duck, 1943) reported similar movements involving distances of from 3 to 26 miles. In central Missouri, Murray (1948) ascribed changes in the quail populations of two study areas to ingress and egress. The movements occurred between April and June, but the distances involved were not known. Because of the differences in results