138 THE BIRDS OF BERKS AND BUCKS. 



ORDER III. RASORES. 



Family TETRAONID^E. 



COMMON QUAIL (Coturnix vulgaris). A visitor 

 in spring and autumn, arriving in May and leaving 

 this country again in the autumn. Though not 

 common, a few are shot every autumn in both coun- 

 ties : a number of Quails were turned out by some 

 gentlemen residing in the neighbourhood of Windsor, 

 and this fact may account for the statement that 

 the Quail is more common here than in many other 

 localities. 



The majority of the Quails which are obtained in 

 Berkshire and Buckinghamshire are shot either in 

 May or September, few, except semi-domesticated 

 birds, being seen or procured in the intervening 

 months. On the 6th of September, 1842, the Rev. B. 

 Burgess put up a Quail in a wheat stubble near Bled- 

 low, but did not kill it, and was unable to flush it a 

 second time. A female of this species, in the same 

 gentleman's collection, was shot near Eddlesborough 

 on the 1st of September, 1846. Three or four Quails 

 were killed in the parish of Wargrave, during the 



