QUAIL 189 
In 1839 Forbes (Quiggins’s Guide, 2nd ed.) noted the 
species as ‘not uncommon,’ and doubtless from then till 
the present day it has continued to flourish. It is now 
very fairly distributed, though perhaps hardly to be called 
abundant. A favourite refuge, as expressed by the Manx 
name Kiark-rhennee, is the bracken on the lower hillsides 
and the selvages of rough land along the coast. There are 
evidently also some on the Calf, where, according to Robert- 
son, they were plentiful towards the end of the eighteenth 
century. . 
In 1902 one hundred and eighty-five Manx Partridge, and 
- three hundred and forty-six imported, appeared in the game 
record, and in 1903; respectively eighty-four and three 
hundred and seventy-four. 
Partridges are well, though unevenly, distributed through 
Ireland, and are common in the north-eastern counties, as 
on the English and Scottish shores of the Irish Sea. They 
have been introduced with little success into Orkney 
and the Outer Hebrides, but not Shetland. 
COTURNIX COMMUNIS, Bonnaterre. 
QUAIL. 
Wet-my- Lip. 
The earliest writer to mention the Quail as occurring in 
the Isle of Man seems to be Forbes, who about seventy years 
ago describes it as ‘not uncommon.’ It is, about the same 
time, included in the Game Act of 1835. The sixth edition 
of Quiggins’s Guide (1858) says: ‘A few still remain,’ and 
its comparative abundance is remembered by many persons 
still alive. By 1870 the bird had probably become scarce, 
if not extinct, and in 1880 Mr. Kermode stated that for 
some years he had not heard of one. 
