CHAPTER XIII. 



The Common Quail. Its Habits. Migrations. The Bishop of Quails. 

 The Great Bustard. Their Love-Season. Mode of Capture. The 

 Little and the Rutted Bustard. 



Common Quail (Waktel, Liten Rapphona, or little 

 partridge, Sw. ; Vagtel, Norw. ; Perdue Coturnix, 

 Lath.) was rare in the vicinity of Ronnum, as also in the 

 west of Sweden ; bat in certain localities near the eastern 

 coast, and in Scania, it is not so very uncommon. It 

 would seem to be on the increase in the Peninsula, and, 

 as with the Partridge, gradually to find its way farther to 

 the north. Its limits in that direction are not very well 

 ascertained, but within a recent period it has been met 

 with somewhat beyond the 60 of lat. That these birds 

 are generally scarce may, however, be inferred from the 

 fact that, during my long residence in Sweden, I never 

 met with but a solitary specimen, and that was during 

 the past autumn in. the province of Halland. 



" In Norway," Professor llasch writes to me, " the 

 Quail is, at times, tolerably common ; but some seasons one 

 hardly hears the call-note of a single one. I found them 



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