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Derham Phyfic. Theol. v. ii. p. 178.) Dr. Ruffe!, 

 in his Hiftory of Aleppo, obferves that the fwallows 

 vifit that country about the end of February, and 

 having hatched their young difappear about the 

 end of July ; and returning again about the 

 beginning of October, continue about a fortnight, 

 and then again difappear. (P. 70 ) 



When my late friend Dr. Chambres, of Derby, 

 was on the ifland of Caprea in the bay of Naples, 

 he was informed that great flights of quails annu- 

 ally fettle on that ifland about the beginning of May, 

 in their paffage from Africa to Europe. And that 

 they always come when the fouth-eaft wind blows, 

 are fatigued when they reft on this iiland, and are 

 taken in fuch amazing quantities and fold to the 

 Continent, that the inhabitants pay the bifhop his 

 ftipend out of the profits arifmg from the fale of 

 them. 



The flights of thefe birds acrofs the Mediterra- 

 nean are recorded near three thoufand years ago. 

 " There went forth a wind from the Loid and 

 brought quails from the fea, and let them fall upon 

 the camp, a day's journey round about it, and they 

 were two cubits above the earth," (Numbers, chap, 

 ii. ver. 31.) 



In our country, Mr. Pennant informs us, that 

 fome quails migrate, and others only remove from 

 the internal parts of the ifland to the coafts, (Zoo- 

 logy, octavo, 210.) Some of the ringdoves and 

 flares breed here, others migrate, (ibid. 510, 511.^ 

 And the flender billed fmall birds do not all quit 

 thefe kingdoms in the winter, though the difficulty 

 of procuring the worms and infects, that they feed 

 on, fupplies the fame reafon for migration to them 

 all, (ibid. 51 1.) 



Linnseus has obferved, that in Sweden the female 

 chaffinches quit that country in September, migrat- 

 ing into Holland, and leave their mates behind till 



their 



