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 QUAIL, COMMON. 



PERDIX COTCHNTX, 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 



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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. 



QUAIL, VIEGINIAN. 



COLIN. 



OETTX VIBGLNIANA, Jenyns. 



The Virginian Quail, which is abundant in North 

 America from Mexico to Massachusetts, has been 

 introduced into England and naturalized in some of 

 the southern counties. It generally keeps itself to 



