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Archipelago) that the bishop of the island draws 

 his chief revenue from them, and has thence been 

 sometimes called the Bishop of Quails. Almost 

 all the islands in the Archipelago, and on the op- 

 posite coasts, are also at particular times covered 

 with these birds. On the western coast also of 

 the kingdom of Naples, within a space of about 

 four or five miles, have been taken no less than 

 eight hundred thousand in a day. Great clouds 

 of Quails are also occasionally seen to alight in 

 spring on some of the French coasts, according 

 to the testimony of the Count de Buffon. All 

 these observations may therefore tend to con- 

 firm the account in the sacred writings of the 

 Quail having been the bird sent, heaven-directed, 

 in such countless flights, among the Israelites 

 during their abode in the wilderness. 



The Quail is the Tetrao Cuturnic of Lin- 

 naeus, and is distinguished as a species by its 

 pale chesnut-brown colour, with a whitish stripe 

 down each feather, and by a whitish stripe over 

 each eye. 



In China is a species much allied to it but 

 of a smaller size, and with a black crescent be- 

 neath the throat. This is the species trained by 



