THE GUN AT HOME AND ABROAD 
Greenwood and Baxendale. This was at Papho, on October 11, 1908. 
Another sportsman killed nine to his own gun at Famagusta, January 10, 
1909. 
MOROCCO. — On the Moorish side of the Straits of Gibraltar quail are 
very abundant at the time of their passage in spring and autumn ; crossing 
over to Europe during March and April, and returning in October and 
November, remaining much longer in the South of Spain in autumn than 
they do in other European countries bordering on the Mediterranean.* 
A sportsman visiting Tangier, Ceuta, Tetuan, or Fez, and making ex- 
cursions in the neighbourhood would be sure to get some quail shooting 
in those months. 
The Moorish name for the quail is summin, and the Spanish and Portu- 
guese name codorniz. 
For further information see Tyrwhitt Drake on “ The Birds of Tangier 
and Eastern Morocco,” published in “ The Ibis,” 1867 and 1869. 
ALGERIA AND THE SAHARA. — ^The reader who may be desirous of 
information on the subject of quails as well as sandgrouse, red-legged 
partridges and other game to be met with in these countries could not 
do better than turn to the late Canon Tristram’s entertaining volume, 
“ The Great Sahara,” a work which, though published many years ago, 
conveys an excellent description of the country and the sport which may 
be obtained there. The quail, of course, is well known there as a bird 
of passage migrating in large flocks, and is known to the Arabs as 
meirhoua (op. cit. p. 400). For further information the reader may be 
referred to Mr J. H. Gurney’s ‘‘ Journal in the Algerian Sahara,” which 
forms a chapter in his ‘‘ Rambles of a Naturalist,” 1876, pp. 21-62. He 
mentions that on one day in the neighbourhood of Algiers a keen sportsman 
shot ten brace of quail in a few hours, and mentions that at Lake Alloula, 
within two days’ journey of Algiers, capital sport may be had with duck, 
geese and snipe. Two guns in a few hours got 40 couple of snipe there. 
EGYPT AND THE NILE VALLEY.^ — So many travellers and sportsmen 
have visited Cairo and made the usual Nile tour, that the sport to be 
obtained in Egypt with the gun, made known through the books they 
have published, must by this time be tolerably familiar to all interested in 
* Irby, Ornithology of the Straits of Gibraltar. 
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