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NATURAL HISTORY. 



summers on the snowy ranges, I never found the nest or eggs, but in Tibet I often met with broods 

 of young cries newly hatched. There were, however, several old birds, and probably more than one 

 brood of chicks, so I could form no correct idea of the number in one brood. They are hardy birds, 

 and easily kept in confinement, but though they will eat grain, I doubt if they would live long 

 without an occasional supply of their natural green food of grass and plants. They may be kept 

 with the least trouble in large cages, the bottoms of which, instead of being solid, are made of bars of 

 wood or iron wire, so that the cages being put out on the grass, the birds may feed through the 

 interstices. 



" The eggs which have been found by travellers " are about the size of those of the Turkey, 

 but, like those of the Grouse, are of a more lengthened form ; their ground-colour clear light olive, 

 sparingly dotted over with small light chestnut spots." 



THE QUAIL. 



The Quails are the smallest of the Partridge family, and are inhabitants of the Old World only ',, 

 they are, however, widely distributed in all four regions. The species best known is the Common 

 Quail (Coturnix dactylisonans), which visits Europe in the summer, when prodigious numbers are 



PARTRIDGE AND COMMON QUAIL. 



