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The Birds of Pembrokeshire. 
about the streets to request the people to abstain from injuring 
the Pheasants that had just been turned down upon an estate at 
no great distance from the town. This, doubtless, had refer- 
ence to the ring-necked birds, and was, probably, their first 
introduction in that part of Carmarthenshire. We have only 
very rarely encountered specimens of the old breed of red birds 
in the covers in North Pembrokeshire. In very severe winters, 
after deep snows and long protracted frosts, we have once or 
twice picked up dead and frozen hen birds in our covers, but 
we never came across a dead cock bird in such weather, and 
believe that these hardy birds can find a subsistence for them- 
selves almost anywhere, and are practically omnivorous, When 
Snipe shooting, we have often put up and shot straying cock 
Pheasants in unexpected places, on the barest hill tops, and in 
the wettest bogs. No doubt, a considerable number of Pheasants 
fall victims to the foxes that swarm beyond all reason in some 
parts in the north of the county ; several times we have had our 
setter draw up to and stand a fox kennelled in some trash on 
the “mountain,” with one of our Pheasants half-eaten by his 
side, and we have wondered whether it was the “ varmint ” that 
we allowed to trot off towards our covers, or the remains of 
game that had been winded by our dog. 
RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE, Caccadis rufa.—Introduced. Lord 
Cawdor in the south of the county, and Mr. J. Worthing- 
ton, of Glyn-y-mel, Fishguard, in the north, have attempted 
to naturalise the red-legged Partridge, but have met with no 
success. We have seen the fine, healthy young birds reared 
at Glyn-y-mel, but they soon disappeared after they were 
turned out in fields where it seemed likely they would remain, 
nor were any ever met with afterwards during the shooting 
season in the neighbourhood. Mr. Moore, the head keeper at 
Picton Castle, has told us that he once shot a single example of 
this species at Picton, and this is the only one that, to our 
knowledge, has been obtained anywhere at large within the 
county. Attempts to introduce the red-legged Partridge have 
also failed both in Devonshire and Dorsetshire, and it seems 
