PLATE CXXVIIL 



The Quail is a fmall bird, about feven inches and a half in length; 

 the female differs from the male, in being deilitute of the black fpots 

 on the fore part of the neck, breaft, and lateral feathers, and in the 

 rufous fpace being paler. 



This bird occurs in the greateil: plenty throughout Ruflia, Tartary, 

 China, and other parts of India, changing its fituation in immenfe 

 flocks according to the feafons, in the fpring proceeding northward, 

 and returning fouthward in autumn. In the iflands of the Archipe- 

 lago, and the fouth of Europe^, they appear at certain times in immenfe 

 myriads. Twice in the year, it is faid, they come in fuch vafl abund- 

 ance into the ifland of Capri, that the biOiop derives the chief part 

 of his revenue from them ; and on the weft coaft of the kingdom of 

 Naples, v/ithin the fpace of four or five miles, an hundred thoufand 

 have been taken in a day. The Quail is not a common bird in this 

 country, although it breeds with us : during the fummer it is found 

 in the northern counties, and migrates fouth in autumn. Thefe birds 

 feed on corn, and other grain. 



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