. Coloured illustrations of British birds, and their eggs . \6\ 116 vi 1^7 •. QUAIL. 10-5 RASORES. TETRAONID/E, PLATE CLVII QUAIL. PERDIX COTURNIX. The Quail is not only a well known bird in Britain asa summer visitant, but throughout the mild parts of Europeand Asia it is met with, as also in the north of Africa; andin some islands of the Mediterranean these birds are so veryplentiful, that the name of Quail Islands has been bestowedon them. Mr. H. M. Drummond, in his Catalogue of Birds foundin Corfu, published in the Magazine of Natural History,also speaks of the numbers of this species that
. Coloured illustrations of British birds, and their eggs . \6\ 116 vi 1^7 •. QUAIL. 10-5 RASORES. TETRAONID/E, PLATE CLVII QUAIL. PERDIX COTURNIX. The Quail is not only a well known bird in Britain asa summer visitant, but throughout the mild parts of Europeand Asia it is met with, as also in the north of Africa; andin some islands of the Mediterranean these birds are so veryplentiful, that the name of Quail Islands has been bestowedon them. Mr. H. M. Drummond, in his Catalogue of Birds foundin Corfu, published in the Magazine of Natural History,also speaks of the numbers of this species that visit thatisland in the course of their migration, in the following-words :— The first of these birds make their appearanceabout the 27th of March; but the grand flight, whichdepends much upon the wind, (which is required to be fromthe southward,) does not arrive till the 10th or 15th ofApril, when they sometimes appear in such numbers, especi-ally in the island of Faro, that instances have not beenwanting of fifty or sixty couple being killed by a singlegun in two or t
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