THE EUROPEAN QUAIL. 
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A small box, two feet long, one foot deep, and four high, of any 
shape which is preferred; in this are left two or three openings, 
one for drinking at, the other to give light; besides this all is 
dark; the bottom is a drawer, which should be covered with 
sand, and have a seed drawer at one end; the top is of green 
cloth; for as the quail often springs up it would hurt itself were 
it of wood. The case should be suspended during the summer 
outside the window, for the quail sings much more when con¬ 
fined in this manner than if allowed to range the room, where 
there are many things to call off its attention from its song. 
