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being an efteemed food*. We are told by Sir William Hamiltox +, 
that great quantities of thefe birds occafionally vifit the ifland of Sv. 
Stefano, which has only Hawks and a kind of large Gull for its general 
inhabitants; but that in the month of May, great flights of Quails 
arrive there from rica, fpent with faticue, and many of them fall an 
eafy prey to the Hawks and Gulls, Quails precifely the fame with 
ours, are alfo faid to be met with both at Rodden Ile and the Cape of 
Good Hope. 
It is not uncommon to find twelve eggs or even more in one nett ; 
but I have known two inftances, in both of which the number of eggs 
was twenty. In another place, the bringing Quails to London from 
France, for the ufe of the table, is mentioned; the time of their being 
fent over is fometime in May; and a late friend of mine § had once 
an intent of purchafing a quantity of them to turn out on his eftate, 
in hopes of their breeding, till he was affured that the whole of thofe 
exported from France were males, which are taken by imitating the 
cry of the hen. 
Californian Quail, Nat. Mf. 9. pl. 345. 
Crefted Partridge of New California, La Perou/z, Voy. i. p. 201 ? 
HIS is rather larger than our Common Quail: the bill is lead 
coloured: the general colour of the plumage on the upper parts 
of the body, wings, and tail, is pale cinereous brown; this colour , 
comes forward on the breaft on each fide in a broad band, where it 
inclines to blueifh afh colour; the back part of the’ neck fpeckled 
* Not fo in the time of Pliay, as they were then condemned as unwholefome. See 
Pliny, Nat. Hift, lib. 18. cap. 23. 
4+ Phil. Tranf. vol. 76. p. 372. 
{ Levaill. Voy. (Fr. ed. 8vo.) i. p. 62. 
§ Mr. Tunftal. 
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CALIFORNIAN 
QUAIL. 
Description. 
