Identifier: birdsofyorkshire02nels (find matches)
Title: The birds of Yorkshire : being a historical account of the avi-fauna of the County
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Nelson, Thomas Hudson, d. 1916 Clarke, William Eagle, 1853-1938 Boyes, F
Subjects: Birds -- England Yorkshire
Publisher: London : A. Brown
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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uced me to institute inquiries, with the resultthat I learnt from Mr. (now Sir) A. E. Pease that he had turneddown several pairs at Pinchinthorpe, and about the sametime some were introduced by Sir I. L. Bell at RountonGrange. It is evident, however, that the country is notsuited to the birds requirements, for they have not becomeacclimatized, and only two odd examples have been reportedwithin the past fourteen years, viz., one at West Coathamin January 1899, and another which was caught in a yard inthe heart of Middlesbrough in March 1903. During thepast spring (1906), some twenty to thirty pairs were turnedout in north-east Cleveland, where they nested. The only noteworthy incident connected with nidificationis that of the discovery of a nest at Boston Spa containingfourteen eggs of the common Partridge, one of a Pheasant,and two belonging to the species under notice. Besides its ordinary name of Red-legged Partridge, thisbird is known to sportsmen as French Partridge, or Frenchman.
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Nest of Red-legged Partridge, near Filey. /C. For/iiin See page 530. COMMON QUAIL. 531 (An example of the Barbary Partridge (Caccahis petrosa,Gm.) is recorded in the Handbook of Vertebrate Faunaof Yorkshire, as having been procured near Beverley about1869, but further investigation proves that it was an escapedpinioned bird.) COMMON QUAIL. Coturnix communis (Bonnai.). Summer visitant, breeding in limited numbers in Holderness andin the Western Ainsty. Has been met with occasionally in winter.Less abundant than formerly. The first mention of the Quail is in the provision atthe great Cawood banquet in 1466, given in honour of Arch-bishop Nevell, thus :— Quayles a hundred dozen (LelandsCollectanea). It also figures in the Northumberland House-hold Book in 1512, at Earl Percys castles of Wressill andLekinfield, Quayles being amongst the birds to be provided for my Lordes owne Mees at Pryncipall Feestes and at ijd.a pece at moste. Thomas Allis, in 1844, wrote :— Coturnix dactylisonans.

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