COTURNIX JAPONICA.—AMMOPERDIX HEYI. Ot 
in some long grass at the ditch-side along which I was passing. These fickle 
birds fluctuate strangely in this country. I was a grown-up lad before I ever 
saw a Quail here. They were then quite unknown. Suddenly they appeared 
in all the more fertile parts, and about twenty years ago they were quite 
common, Since then they have been declining in numbers, and are now 
scarce.” | 
[§ 8032. SevenLurgybrack, Donegal, 27 June, 1865. 
From Mr. R. Harvey. 
Mr. Harvey’s note is :—‘ These were a nestful taken on a farm adjoining my 
own lands by the herd-boy and brought by him to me. They were deserted 
and addled.” | 
COTURNIX JAPONICA, Temminck & Schlegel. 
[§ 8033. Onve.—Darasun, Dauuria, 12 April, 1866. From 
Dr. Dybowski, through M. Jules Verreaux, 1871. 
[§ 3034. One.—*< Sibérie.” From Dr. Dybowski, through 
M. Jules Verreaux, 1873. 
Dr. Dybowski’s notes on the breeding of this bird, under the synonym of 
C. muta, were published by Dr. Taczanowski in the ‘ Journal fiir Ornithologie’ 
for 1873 (p. 99), and the latter gives some further particulars of its eggs, 
under the name of C. ussurtensis, in his ‘ Faune Ornithologique de la Sibérie 
Orientale ’ (ii. pp. 781, 782).] 
AMMOPERDIX HEYI (Temminck). 
[§ 3035. Onve—Mount Quarantania, >) 
Jericho, 138 March, 1864. 
-From Mr. ‘Tristram. 
[§ 3036. Zwvo—Mount Quarantania, 
Jericho, 1 April, 1864. J 
The Canon’s note states that the first of these was from a nest of nine, and 
the remaining two from a nest of twenty-seven; but sixteen of them were of 
the preceding year and addled! Both nests in holes in the rocks in the side 
of Mount Quarantania, near Jericho. The second nest was inside an old 
hermit’s chapel-cave. Further particulars are given by the Canon in ‘The 
Ibis’ for 1868 (p. 214). ] 
