320 Q^ U A I L. 



B^ Quail, Br. ZooL i, N° 1)1 .—Wachtel, Faun. Suec, N" 206.— Lev. Mus.— Bl.Mus. 



JS found no further north than S'wfira. It appears there in the. 

 beginning of the kafitig month (May) ; and is neither heard or 

 feen there in autumn or winter, unlefs it fhould, as Linnaus fuppofes, 

 migrate to the fouthern province, or Schonen, or retire to the Ukraine, 

 Wallachia, &c *. 



Quails fwarm fo greatly, at the time of their migration, about the 

 Dnieper, and in the fouth of RuJJia, that they are caught by thoufands, 

 and fent to Mojcow and Peterjburgh in caflcs. They are common in all 

 parts of Great 1'artary ; but in Sibiria only in the fouth, as their 

 paflage is hindered by the lofty fnowy mountains. It is faid they 

 winter beneath the fnow j and in great frofts, to be found 

 torpid in the Jnt-hills, Beyond lake Baikal, the Quails exaflly 

 refemble thofe of Europe, but are quite mute. Thefe are ufed hj 

 £he Chineje in fighting, as we do Cocks. 



• Aman. Acad, iv. jgzo 



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