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QUAIL. 



COMMON QUAIL. 



Pcrdlx coturnix, LATHAM. JENYNS. 



Tetrao cotumix, 



PerdixA Partridge. CoturnixA Quail. 



THE Quail is very abundant on the continent of Europe, 

 in Italy and France, and in Sicily, and the Greek Islands. 

 They go as far north in summer as Lapland, and the more 

 temperate parts of Siberia and Russia; and are also found in 

 Africa, even at the Cape of Good Hope; and in many parts 

 of Asia, in China, India, Malacca, and Japan. 



In England they are much less common than they were 

 fifty years ago, while the contrary is the case in Ireland, but 

 'in some seasons they are more plentiful than in others. 



In Yorkshire they seem to have been formerly more abundant 

 than they are now. They are occasionally met with about 

 Sheffield, and used to breed in the vicinity of Halifax, likewise 

 near York, also near Leeds, at Seacroft, Killingbeck, and 

 Churwell, and near Huddersfield, Burlington, and other places. 

 In Norfolk they are not uncommon near Yarmouth, but in 

 most parts are limited in numbers. They were formerly far 

 more numerous there. 



N. Rowe, Esq., of Worcester College, Oxford, has informed 

 me of their breeding near Crediton, Devonshire, in a corn-field 

 on Staddon Heights, where the eggs were taken on the 1st. 

 of August, 1850; and also on the moors about the Harbridge 

 Flats on the borders of Surrey and Berkshire. In Cornwall 



