. THE NATURAL HISTORY 
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“The commom Quail. The legs are naked, 
‘the body fpotted with prey, the eyebrows are 
white, the tail has twelve feathers barred with 
black, and pale brownith red. 
“The common Quails abound in the fouthern 
parts of Europe, they are not found further north 
than Sweden, and then only in the month of 
May. Inthe 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 Peterfourgh and Mufeovy. 
3n. catks. 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 
fmaller, their flefh is fatter, they are fhorter lived, 
and have not the fame art in efcaping from the. 
fowler, neither do they aflociate together except at 
the feafons when they migrate from one climate to 
another; when they are confined together they 
fometimes fight and deftroy one another. 
~The inclination to migrate feems implanted i 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 
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