oi: THE NATURAL HISTORY 
hips they may meet, and oftentimes fall into the 
fea, where they are feen Alating, and beating the 
“‘wavess with one wing, as though they were en- 
deavouring to rife again into the air. 
We read in the fcriptures that the wind brought 
a prodigious number of Quails into the camp of 
the Ifraelites, whilft they were vane in be 
defert. 
‘Towards the beginning of autumn, in the ifland 
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of Caprea, in the Gulph of Naples, they are taken “ 
in fuch numbers, that the bifhop of that ifland 
receives the greateft part of his revenue from 
them, and he is called from that citcumftance the 
bifhop of Quails. 7 
In the neighbourhood of Naples they are fo 
plentiful, that 100,000 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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