ISO THE BISHOP OF QUAILS. 



what was the kingdom of Naples they have at timrs 

 appeared in such great quantities that, within a space >!' 

 five or six miles, 100,000 have been taken in a single day ; 

 and that on the island of Capri, near the city of Naples, so 

 many used to he captured as to constitute the chid' 

 revenues of the Bishop of the diocese, who was therefore 

 called the Bishop of Quails. 



Smart, in his " Travels in Turkey," tells us further, that 

 "in the vicinity of Constantinople the sun is often nearly 

 obscured by the prodigious flights of Quails, which alight 

 on the coasts of the Black Sea near the Bosphorus, and 

 are taken by means of nets spread on high poles planted 

 along the cliffs, some yards from its edges, against which 

 the birds, exhausted by their passage over the sea, -trike 

 themselves and fall. In October, 1829, the Sultan sent 

 orders to one of his admirals to catch 400 dozen. 

 In three days they were collected, and brought to him 

 alive in small cages." And Madden says that "they \i>it 

 Egypt in immense flights about harvest-time, where tin- 

 Arabs take them by thousands in nets. They fly," he 

 adds, "in a direct line from north to south, and very 

 rarely from east to west." 



The account given in Holy Writ, as to the mode of 

 drying these birds in the sun, is also singularly corro- 

 borated by the traveller Maillet. "There is," says he, 

 " a small island off the coast of Fgypt, where the (Quails 

 usually alight in the autumn, on which they are taken in 

 such quantities, that, after having been stripped of their 

 leather-, aiid dried in the burning sands for about a 

 quarter of an hour, they are worth but one penny tin- 

 pound. The crewi of tboae Vetteli which at that season 

 of the year lie in the adjacent harbour, have no other 

 food allowed them." 



The Civat Mustard (S/<- '/',-<'/>/>. S\v. ; T,-<ifj<'.^ 

 . hanish; Otis lunln, Linn.), which uas once 



