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a pair once came into the Vicarage garden (" Moorland 

 Parish," p. 327). Mr. J. Braim had eggs in his collection, 

 taken near Whitby in the " fifties," and the bird has been 

 known to breed near there on several occasions since then, 

 the last instance of which I am aware being in 1896 ; an 

 egg in my possession was one of a deserted clutch of eleven 

 found at Glaisdale in August of that year. At Easby- 

 in-Cleveland I heard birds calling in June 1895 ; a young 

 one was seen at Kirkleatham in 1896, and at Carperby, in 

 Wensleydale, a nest containing ten eggs was discovered in 

 1884. 



On both the spring and autumn passage the Quail has 

 occurred at various coast stations, while during Partridge 

 shooting in September it has been met with repeatedly, the 

 reported and communicated instances of which are too 

 numerous for recapitulation. 



It has also occasionally been killed in mid-winter ; one 

 at Nafferton, in December 1851, is mentioned by the Rev. 

 F. O. Morris ; Mr. F. Boyes had one brought to him on 28th 

 December 1878 ; and on 20th February 1866, one was 

 obtained near Beverley (Zool. 1867, p. 540). 



As on various occasions Quails have been turned down 

 for experimental purposes by estate owners in Yorkshire, 

 it is possible some of the records may be attributable to 

 imported birds. 



[A VIRGINIAN COLIN (Ortyx virginianus, L.), killed at 

 Cottingham (" Birds of Humber District," 1872, p. 83), was, 

 doubtless, an imported specimen, as was also an Andalusian 

 Hemipode (Turnix sylvatica, Desf.) obtained near Hudders- 

 field, 7th April 1865 (Gould, P.Z.S. 1866, p. 210).] 



