396 Mr. J. H. Gurney on the 



Pin-tailed Sand-Grouse. Pterocles alchata. 



In January 1837 several individuals, supposed to have been 

 driven from a stony waste called " The Crau " by snow, were 

 killed at Frejus, and in January 1871, the same month that 

 my Great Bustard (to be mentioned presently) was shot, a 

 considerable flight appeared in the plain of the Gard (Pellicot) . 



P. alchata has strayed as far north as Lyons (Olphe- 

 Galliard) and La Basse, while one has been killed at Nice. 



Pheasant. Phasianus colchicus. 



There are no Pheasants at Valescure, and the authors of 

 ' Les Richesses Ornithologiques ' give no hint that they exist 

 in a wild state in the district ; but a good many have been 

 reared on the islands off Cannes, where they fly up in very 

 orthodox style. 



Greek Partridge. Caccabis saxatilis. 



Jaubert says that the " Bartavelle^' is very rare, and whether 

 it was this species or C petrosa which was hanging in a 

 game-shop at Cannes I forget, but I think the latter ; if so, 

 it may have been imported from Sardinia. 



Barbary Partridge. Caccabis petrosa. 



We learn from M. Pellicot that C. petrosa has successfully 

 multiplied in the island of Port Cros; and I once saw some 

 specimens being hawked in the streets of Marseilles, but 

 these may have come from Africa. 



Red-legged Partridge. Caccabis rufa. 



Absolutely sedentary, and very much commoner where 

 Ave were than Perdio; cinerea, M'hich Jaubert terms a bird 

 of double passage *. In ' Les Richesses Ornithologiques ' 

 (p. 419) the same author says that two races of C rvfa 

 exist in the Var, difl'eriug much in size. Two in a cage at 

 Grasse were certainly large and bright, but not equal to the 

 splendid examples to be seen in Spain. The brightness of 



* Some years ago I sjieut two months iu Lorraine, where I expected 

 to find Caccabis rufa pretty common, but, on the contrary, it appeared to 

 be exceedingly rare ; on the other hand, I often saw a small covey of the 

 Grey Partridge (Perdiv cinerea), yet I do not think that either of them 

 were migratory. 



