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autumns of 1861 and 1862. On the 2d of September, 

 1867, a single Quail was shot by Mr. J. T. Brown, 

 of Eton, while out partridge-shooting on Skippit's 

 farm, near the New Lodge, Windsor. Others have 

 been procured near Eton in the autumn, and occa- 

 sionally the species has occurred at Cookham, East 

 Ilsley, Wallingford, Newbury, Reading, Langley 

 Park, and Chesham. Mr. Morris states, on the 

 authority of Mr. Hewet, that this bird is common 

 in some parts of Berkshire, while in others it is 

 hardly ever seen. Mr. D. Mackenzie shot one and 

 flushed three Quails near Fawley, Bucks, on the 5th 

 of October, 1867. The nest has been taken on the 

 moors about the Harbridge flats, on the borders of 

 Berkshire and Surrey. A nest was cut out of a hay- 

 field near Bolney Harpenden, in the spring of 1866. 



The Rev. H. Harpur Crewe informed me that a 

 few Quails are killed near Drayton Beauchamp al- 

 most every September. The Formosa collection 

 contains a Quail, which was shot by Mr. Briggs, on 

 some chalky ground near Cockmarsh, where these 

 birds were not uncommon a few years ago. 



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