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QUAIL, COMMON. 
Perpix Coturnix, Mont. 
This Quail is extensively distributed over Asia, 
Africa, and Europe, and in some regions is station- 
ary, in others migratory. It arrives in England 
about the middle of May, and departs in September ; 
but instances have occurred of its remaining in 
winter both in England and Ireland. _ It is very 
seldom met with in Scotland, and is not common 
anywhere. Its food consists of seed, herbage, and 
occasionally insects. It selects for its nest a slight 
hollow, and the eggs, of which there are from ten 
to sixteen, are of a reddish yellow, yellowish white, 
or greenish grey hue, marked all over with dark 
brown spots and blotches. The haunts of the 
Quail are chiefly cultivated fields and pastures. 
Og Add ON eG NA: 
Comin. 
Ortyx VirGintana. Jenyns. 
This species, which is abundant in North Ame- 
rica from Mexico to Massachusetts, has been intro- 
duced into England and naturalized in some of the 
southern counties. It generally keeps itself to 
