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down the fh aft of each is a yellowifh flrreak : the chin, throat, 

 belly, thighs, and vent, dirty yellowifh white : fore part of the 

 neck and bread pale rufous, marked with a few blackifh fpots, 

 and the feathers ftreaked down the middle as the back, but paler: 

 the feathers of the fides are rufous, marked with fmall blackifh. 

 fpots, and marked down the fhaft as the others : the quills are 

 grey brown, crofTed with rufous bands outwardly : the tail has 

 twelve feathers, with black and pale rufous bars : legs pale 

 brown. 

 Female. The female differs from the male in having no black fpots on 



the fore part of the neck, breaft, and fide feathers, and the 

 rufous colour lefs vivid : fome of them have a long fpot of 

 brown beneath the throat. 

 Place and The Quail feems to fpread entirely throughout the old world, 



but does not inhabit the new; is feen from the Cape of Good Hope 

 quite to Iceland *, and throughout Ruffia, 'Tartary, and China j- j 

 and in fhort is mentioned by fo many travellers, and in fo many 

 places, that we almoft call it an inhabitant of all. It is obferved 

 to fhift quarters according to the feafon, coming northward in 

 fpring, and departing Jouth in autumn, and this in vaft flocks, 

 like other migrating birds. Twice in a year come in fuch vafl 

 quantities into Capri, that the bifhop of the ijland draws the 

 chief part of his revenue from them j hence is called the Quail 

 Bifhop %. But this does not Hand alone j almoft all the iflands 

 in the Archipelago, on the oppofite coafts, are at times covered 



* Horreboiv. 



f Said to be found in Falkland IJles j alfo in New Zealand,- -See ForJler"s 

 Obf. p. 199. 

 J Hifi, des oif. 



•with. 



