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• QUAILS The Israelites were twice relieved in their privation by a
  miraculous supply of quails, (1) in the wilderness of Sin (Exodus 16:13),
  and (2) again at Kibroth-hattaavah (q.v.), Numbers 11:31. God “rained
  flesh upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea”
  (Psalm 78:27). The words in Numbers 11:31, according to the Authorized
  Version, appear to denote that the quails lay one above another to the
  thickness of two cubits above the ground. The Revised Version, however,
  reads, “about two cubits above the face of the earth”, i.e., the quails flew at
  this height, and were easily killed or caught by the hand. Being thus
  secured in vast numbers by the people, they “spread them all abroad”
  (11:32) in order to salt and dry them.

These birds (the Coturnix vulgaris of naturalists) are found in countless
numbers on the shores of the Mediterranean, and their annual migration is
an event causing great excitement.