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§ 3023. Zhree—Zana, Algeria, 15 June, 1857. From Mr. 
Simpson. 
[§ 3024. One.—Soham, Cambridgeshire, 1846. From Mr. 
H. Dobede. | 
[§ 3025. Oxe.—Barnham, Suffolk, May, 1849. 
I have no record of how many eggs there were in the nest, but the first was 
estimated to have been laid on the 20th of May (Zool. p. 2525). | 
[§ 3026. Four.—Southrey Fen, Norfolk, 1851. From Mr. J. 
Baker. 
Two eges from each of two nests. ] 
[§ 8027. Zwo.—Northwold, Norfolk, 1851. From Mr. J. 
Baker. 
Remarkably curious eggs, having a kind of “bloom” like that on fruit on 
the dark patches, which vanishes on the shell being wetted, and reappears 
when it is dry. | 
[§ 3028. Mour.—Hlveden, 25 June, 1852. 
Out of a nest of eleven egys, mown oyer in a field of sainfoin. Nine of them 
were placed under a Bantam hen, when the period of incubation was found 
to be nineteen days. About half a dozen were hatched and the young reared 
to maturity, being kept in a walled garden, whence one made its escape, while 
the rest in time disappeared—victims, as was supposed, to rats. The day after 
this nest was found another, containing a single egg—probably laid by the 
same bird—was mown over in the same field. The Quail had not been known 
to breed at Elyeden before, so far as I could learn. ] 
[§ 8029. One.—Elveden, 26 June, 1852. 
The single egg above mentioned. | 
[§ 3030. Oze.—Barnham, 1854. ] 
[§ 8031. Aight—Leck, Donegal, 12 July, 1868. From Mr. 
R. Harvey. 
Mr, Harvey wrote :—“ This nestful was found by myself as I was crossing 
the fields to my church and is the only one of the species I ever found. It was 
