"Waves, with one wing, as though they were efi": 
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78 THE NATURAL HISTORY 
fhips they may meet, and oftentimes fall into the. 
fea, where they are feen floating, and beating the 

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@eavouring to rife again into the air. 
- We readin the fcriptures that the wind wisn 
a prodigious number of Quails into the camp of 
the Ifraelites, whilft they were amet in. the 
defert. a os os 
‘Towards the beginning of autumn, in the i 
of Caprea, in the Gulph of Naples, they are taken ia 
in fuch numbers, that the bifhop of that ifland 
receives the greateft part of his revenue from 
them, and he is called from that circumftance the 
bifhop of Quails. 
In the neighbourhood of Naples they are fo 
plentiful, that 100,coo are fometimes taken in 
one day ; when they firft arrive, they are fo tired 
that they have often been taken with the hand. : 
Though in general Quails migrate, yet it is 
faid that in fome countries they remain all the 
year, but perhaps thefe may be fuch only as are 
too young to accompany the others ; this at leaft 
is thought fometimes to be the cafe in England, 
and that they leave the mountains which are cold 
in the winter, to come down to the fea coaft 
where it is warmer ; there they live very much 
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