82 ‘THE BIRDS OF BRECONSHIRE. 
QUAIL, Coturnix vulgaris. 
An occasional visitor. A friend of 
mine, shooting near Brecon some years 
since, flushed a small bevy when Par- 
tridge-shooting, but thought at first they 
were ‘‘squeakers”; he, however, followed 
them up, and killed three of them. At 
another time I saw a single bird on the 
hill near Devynnock, and another was 
killed not far from Llanwrtyd, at 
Cynghordy, by that excellent sportsman, 
the late Mr. Henry Gwynne-Vaughan. 
Mr. Williams-Vaughan also saw three 
or four near Trebarried some years since, 
but, after flushing them once, failed to 
rise them a second time; and Lord 
Glanusk also has sent me word that once 
he shot two brace of Quail at or near 
Glanusk Park. The late Mr. Williams 
of Manest told me that they were more 
plentiful here during the Franco-Prussian 
War than in any other season, and sug- 
gested that the constant firing which 
occurred at that time in France drove 
them over; he then killed several brace. 
In 1880, I am informed, a brace of Quail 
nested near Bolgoed, Brecon, but did not 
hatch, in consequence, I imagine, of their 
