PARTRIDGES 149 



Oct. 1, 1881 ; and for other reports of domesticated 

 Partridges, Field, Feb. 7, 1891, April 8, 1893, and 

 March 3, 1894. 



RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE.^ Gaccahis rufa (Linnjeiis). 

 Length, 13-5 in. ; wing, 6-25 in. ; tarsus, 1'75 in. 



The introduction of this bird into Suffolk, which 

 was attempted about the year 1770 by the Marquis 

 of Hertford and Lord Rendlesham, was effectually 

 carried out by Lords Alvanley and De Ros at Cul- 

 ford in Suffolk in 1824 and following years (see 

 Stevenson, " Birds of Norfolk," vol. i. p. 406). It 

 is now a local resident in the eastern and mid- 

 land counties, gradually extending its range. See 

 my article on the introduction of this bird into 

 England, Field, Jan. 27, 1883, and remarks on its 

 distribution in the west of England in llodd's 

 "Birds of Cornwall," pp. 77, 310. In 1888 a 

 large number were turned down for "driving" 

 near Wimborne and Poole, Dorsetshire. In regard 

 to its extension westward, it may be mentioned 

 that one was shot near Ross, in Herefordshire, in 

 Oct. 1881, several at Andoversford, in Gloucester- 

 shire, in Sept. 1896, one at Okehampton, Devon, in 

 Oct. 1882, and one at Kingston near Taunton in 

 Dec. 1882 (Zool, 1888, p. 176). In Oct. 1892 one 

 was obtained at Bagillt, in Flintshire {Field, Oct. 22, 

 1892). As to the extension northward, between 



^ Red-legged Partridges of the genus Caccabis have fourteen feathers 

 in the tail, instead of sixteen to eighteen as in PercHx, and, moreover, 

 have spurs or wart-like protuberances on the legs, which is not the 

 case with the Grev Partridges. 



