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Quails. 
recent years. These l)irds liave lieen frequently turned down by 
sportsmen in different parts of the country, but for some un- 
known reason they have never estabhshed tliemselves here, and 
T believe, the results have l)een exactly the same in France 
where similar experiments have l)een tried. In many parts o*" 
the U.S.A. the bird has now become scarce. Their eggs, from 
twelve to sixteen in number, are wdiite. 
Cui?.\N Quail. This is a very closely allied species to the 
preceding. A young bird was reared by Mr. Astley under a 
Bantam hen in 191 1 — B.N., Vol. II., N.S. It appears to be 
more freely imported than C. 7'irginia)nis. as I have had them 
offered to me by dealers on several occasions. Eggs simila?. 
to the last mentioned species. 
Bt.ACK-BREASTKD MEXICAN OuAiL. Another very similar 
species. Young were hatched at the Zoo in 1912 — B.N., Vol. II. 
N.S. — in an incubator, but I do not know if any were reared. 
Three were reared in my aviaries last year, a cock and two hens. 
A full account of this event was published in the Az'icnUiiral 
Magaciuc for February, also see B.N., Vol. VIII, ,N.S., page 
21. The cock, acting in a similar way to the eastern hemipodes, 
hatched and reared the yoimg without any assistance from the 
hen. I think this a rather interesting occurrence. Ten white 
eggs were laid, some of which showed faint buff and ash-col- 
oured stains. 
Massexa Quait,. Another species from the Southern 
TJ.S.A., and Northern Mexico, which differs very substantiallv 
from any of the ouails already mentioned. It has a very much 
fuller and heavier crest, and this is not nearly so erectile as in 
other American species. The shape of its body is more that of 
the common English Ouail. being squat and dumpy. In Texas 
and Arizona it is called by the cowboys the Fool Partridge on 
account of its stupidity. I rather think that its heavy crest inter- 
feres with its sight, as it not infrequently allows itself to b-.' 
knocked down by a stick or stone. I can find no record of its 
having been reared in this country, but in France Mons. Pichot 
hatched three under a Bantam hen. one of which lived to be two 
nionths old. Fie tells us in the AT'iciiItiiral ,\[ac:ac:iiic. February, 
K)iX, that he found this variety distinctly delicate, and this was 
