. Rural bird life : being essays on ornithology with instructions for preserving objects relating to that science . ixteen,while a few nests will contain but eight or twelve. Istrongly suspect, however, that two females lay in thosenests which contain so many eggs. The eggs are veryhandsome ones, being a yellowish-olive in ground tint,blotched and spotted with rich brown of various tints :they are about the size of a Blackbirds ^gg. The youngare brought to maturity under the care of the femalebirds, where two females lay in one nest the birds divid-ing the brood between them. Quails, like Part
. Rural bird life : being essays on ornithology with instructions for preserving objects relating to that science . ixteen,while a few nests will contain but eight or twelve. Istrongly suspect, however, that two females lay in thosenests which contain so many eggs. The eggs are veryhandsome ones, being a yellowish-olive in ground tint,blotched and spotted with rich brown of various tints :they are about the size of a Blackbirds ^gg. The youngare brought to maturity under the care of the femalebirds, where two females lay in one nest the birds divid-ing the brood between them. Quails, like Partridges,are seldom stirring in the middle of the day, only feedingin the morning and evening, and their food is similar tothat of the Partridge. The migrations of the Quails are a salient feature intheir life history. They winter in Africa and othersouthern lands, coming northwards in the spring in in-credible numbers ; and, what is rather singular, is, themale birds precede the females several days, sometimesa week, or even more. These birds return with unerringcertainty to their haunts of the previous THE RED GROUSE. HE who would wish to observe the Red Grouse Inhis natural haunt, must leave the lowland districts anddirect his attention to the upland wilds. Here he meetsNature in all her wild and solemn grandeur. He seesthe mountains in rugged majesty send their heads to theskies ; he wanders amidst the rocky crags, hurled fromabove, like mighty Fragments of an earlier world ; he threads his perilous way over the marshy tractsand on the borders of the mountain currents, mayhappondering over his nothingness and the scarcity ofanimal life. Now wandering over the mtcrmmablestretch of heath, he starts the Twite from its lowly bed,and it utters its complaining note and retires sfU furtherinto the wild ; or he hears the Curlews pipmg call, as on 3IO RURAL BIRD LIFE. rapid wing it cleaves the air above him on its way to themarshy tracts. Suddenly he flushes the Red Grouse, t
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