200 QUAIL. 



Breinton, and return again the following year. P'or some weeks 

 after they were set free, their " calls " were heard, and then possibly 

 they left to find their way to the Riviera, and the tables of Monte 

 Carlo instead of Belgravia, for nothing more was seen or heard 

 of them. In 1865, a Quail was killed at Weston Beggard ; and on 

 September 20th, 1867, Mr. H. C. Beddoe met with a bevy of five 

 Quails on Adams' Hill, Breinton, and killed two of them, so 

 that Mr. Symonds' birds may possibly have returned to breed 

 there after all. In the same year, Mr. C. W. Radcliffe Cooke, M.P., 

 met with a bevy of five Quails at Cobrey Park, near Ross, but 

 none of them were killed. 



In 1870, Mr. H. H. Wood's setter caught a young Quail at 

 Great Brampton ; in 1873, a Quail was shot at Highnam, in 

 the parish of Tarrington. In 1879, ^^r. C. W. Radcliffe Cooke, 

 M.P., shot a Quail at Nuttall's Farm, Much Marcle ; and on 

 September i8th, 1881, he also shot another at Puredines, in the 

 same parish. In 1880, Mr. W. Hill shot a single Quail at Braintrees, 

 in Bishopstone parish. In 1881, a Quail was also shot at Lower 

 Eaton by Mr. Pulley's keeper, and the bird is now in the Hereford 

 Museum. The same year, September 9th, 188 1, a Quail killed itself 

 by flying against the telegraph wire on the railway between Ross 

 and Backney, which bird is now in the possession of Mr. W. C. Blake, 

 of Ross. On the 15th of September, Mr. H. C. Beddoe killed a 

 young Quail, which got up from a stubble-field on the Swanston 

 Court Farm, Dilwyn. This same year also, two w^re killed at 

 Sutton at different times ; one at Peterstow by Mr. Daw ; and one 

 at Withington by Mr. R. Prosser, so late as December 3rd. 



The flesh of the Quail is much esteemed, but if eaten con- 

 tinuously it is a very heating food, says Yarrell, as indeed the 

 children of Israel seem to have found it. It takes its place, 

 however, on the sumptuous tables of the rich. 



A pasty coatly-made 

 Where Quail and Piffeon, Lark and Leveret lay, 

 Like fossils in the roik, with golden yolks 

 Imbedded and injellied. 



TKi^nY&otf—Audlei/ Cowt. 



