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76 > THE NATURAL HISTORY 
The commom Quail. The legs, are naked, 
the body Spotted with grey, the eyebrows are 
white, the tail has twelve feathers barred ta te 
black, and pale brownith red. i 
‘The common Quails abound in the fouthern. 
parts of Europe, they are not found further nor ‘th 
than Sweden, and then only in the month of 
May. In the fouth of Ruffia, and the neighbour- 
hood of the river Druieper, about the time of their 
migration, they are fo numerous as to be taken by — 
thoufands, and fent to Peterfburgh and Mufcovy 
in cafks. They are found from the Cape of 
Good Hope to Sweden, and from Ruffia to China, - 
in New Zealand, and even in Falkland’s Ifland. | 
The Quail is lefs than the Partridge, and has _ 
‘not that mark on the breaft like a horfefhoe, 
which is feen on Partridges; their eggs are 
{maller, their flefh is fatter, they are fhorter lived, 
and have not the fame art in efcaping from the 
fowler, neither do they affociate together except at 
the feafons when they migrate from one climate to 
another ; when they are confined together they 
iometimes fight and deftroy one another. 
The inclination to migrate feems implanted in 
them by nature, for there have been inftances of) 
Quails which were brought up tame, and had 
been confined in cages for four years, yet twice 
on i. eee 

