1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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Exodus 16:13

So it came to pass in the evening, *that quails coming up, covered the camp: and in the morning a dew lay round about the camp.

Numbers 11:31.

Quails. All the Oriental languages express these birds by solaem, though some have asserted, that pheasants or locusts are here meant. Josephus (Antiquities 3:1) informs us, that great flocks of quails are found about the gulph of Arabia. They return to Europe from the warmer regions, about the beginning of May, at which time God directed the course of vast multitudes to the camp of Israel. Hesychius says, the chennion, a smaller species of quails, was salted and dried, as the Hebrews did theirs, Numbers 11:32. See Psalm 77:26. (Calmet) --- Dew, upon which lay the miraculous bread, around the camp. None fell within, as the place was not sufficiently clean. (Menochius)