. Egg of the Common Quail—natural siz» CHAPTER X. THE COMMON OR DACTYL-SOUNDING QUAIL. (Cotuvnix dactyUsonans.—GovLD.) Emblem of mediocrity.—Explanation of specific name.—Call note.—Their migrations.—Immense multitudes.—Their destruction.—Aneient history.— Identical with the Quail of Scripture.—Do not universally migrate.—Welcome feasts afforded by their flight.—Quails in captivity.—Their fate in an aviary.— Distinction between Quails and Partridges.—Unvarying plumage throughout the Old World.—Whether polygamous.—Careless of their young.—Their double moult.—Breeding in confinement.—Diet.—Subje
. Egg of the Common Quail—natural siz» CHAPTER X. THE COMMON OR DACTYL-SOUNDING QUAIL. (Cotuvnix dactyUsonans.—GovLD.) Emblem of mediocrity.—Explanation of specific name.—Call note.—Their migrations.—Immense multitudes.—Their destruction.—Aneient history.— Identical with the Quail of Scripture.—Do not universally migrate.—Welcome feasts afforded by their flight.—Quails in captivity.—Their fate in an aviary.— Distinction between Quails and Partridges.—Unvarying plumage throughout the Old World.—Whether polygamous.—Careless of their young.—Their double moult.—Breeding in confinement.—Diet.—Subject to epilepsy.—Estimation as food.—Modes of cooking and of fatting.—Quail fights.—Distinction of sex.— Pick-werwick.—Quails in process of fatting.—Necessaries of life. " Birds, faithfully imaging the relations of this life, offer to us, in the variety of their plumage, types of the distinctions which exist in the state in which Man finds himself placed. Many a one, puffed up with his wealth or his knowledge, resembles a Peacock, who, admiring his own splendour, seems himself to enjoy the magnifi- cence which he displays; whilst the Quail, modestly clad, hiding itself from all eyes in its obscure retreat, is a representative of humble mediocrity, which strives
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