190 QUAIL 
In the early part of the last decade, however, the Quail 
began to appear again not infrequently here, as in Ireland 
and Great Britain. 
In June 1892 a specimen was found dead on the South 
Quay, Douglas. In September of the same year one was 
seen by Mr. J. C. Crellin (Y. LZ. I, ii. 71), and he writes of 
the next year (zbid. 204): ‘It is many years, more than 
twenty, since the Quail was so abundant in the island. 
From north to south these birds might be heard uttering 
their peculiar and sweet note. Though so numerous in the 
spring and summer time, yet, strange to say, they were not 
nearly so plentiful in September as I should have expected.’ 
One in Mr. Kermode’s collection at Ramsey was shot in 
Onchan, 14th November 1894. Toward the middle of June 
1899 Mr. Crellin heard one near the highroad between 
Ballachurry and Ramsey. <A few years ago an egg, with the 
end broken in and partly emptied, which had been picked 
up in a field in the higher part of Braddan, was given to 
Mr. Leach. Mr. J. J. Gill reported to Mr. Kermode a 
nest containing six eggs found in a field of green corn at 
Rheast Moar, near Ramsey, also in a recent year. 
In 1902 six Manx Quail, against eighteen imported, were 
registered. In 1903 there were none at all. 
Mr. Kermode records that Dr. Crellin once shot a cream- 
coloured specimen (not now, at least, at Orrisdale). 
The family of Quayle, of Clychur, Crogga, and Castletown, 
bear on their coat-of-arms three Quails proper; the crest 
isa Quail, and one of the mottoes ‘ Qualis Ero Spero.’ It is 
needless to say that the name, a frequent one in Man, has 
no real connection with that of the bird (Manz Note-Book, 
No. 8, p. 169). 
The Quail used to be numerous, at least at certain times 
and places, in Ireland, but has now much diminished. Its 
history is much the same in Galloway and north-western 
