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QUAIL. 
COMMON QUAIL. 
Perdix coturniz, LATHAM. JENYNS. 
Tetrao coturniz, LINN AUS, 
Perdiz—A Partridge. Coturniz—A Quail. 
THE Quail is very abundant on the continent of Europe, 
in Italy and France, and in Sicily, and the Greek Islands. 
They go as far north in summer as Lapland, and the more 
temperate parts of Siberia and Russia; and are also found in 
Africa, even at the Cape of Good Hope; and in many parts 
of Asia, in China, India, Malacca, and Japan. 
In England they are much less common than they were 
fifty years ago, while the contrary is the case in Ireland, but 
in some seasons they are more plentiful than in others. 
In Yorkshire they seem to have been formerly more abundant 
than they are now. ‘They are occasionally met with about 
Sheffield, and used to breed in the vicinity of Halifax, likewise 
near York, also near Leeds, at Seacroft, Kuillingbeck, and 
Churwell, and near Huddersfield, Burlington, and other places. 
In Norfolk they are not uncommon near Yarmouth, but in 
most parts are limited in numbers. They were formerly far 
more numerous there. 
N. Rowe, Esq., of Worcester College, Oxford, has informed 
me of their breeding near Crediton, Devonshire, in a corn-field 
on Staddon Heights, where the eggs were taken on the Ist. 
of August, 1850; and also on the moors about the Harbridge 
Flats on the borders of Surrey and Berkshire. In Cornwall 
