Leonard Blaisdell wrote:

> I've eaten my share of quail and doves. Wild quail legs are usually
> left in the field in Nevada. Breasts are kept. What you read may have
> been a misprint. They might have meant quail eggs which are fairly
> common and equally useless to other than a starving man.
> But quail eggs are culinarily cool and expensive. Quail legs shouldn't
> be. I figure it would take a hundred of them to feed a person poorly.
> 2 cents.

I shot one quail once. I cooked the whole bird but even with that it
was nothing but a small appetizer.

G.