80 ‘THE BIRDS OF BRECONSHIRE. 
although they have, I think, been shot 
down much too closely in various 
localities. This should not be, as a 
better Partridge country than that round 
Brecon it is almost impossible to 
conceive. Birds having a white horse 
shoe seem to be on the increase during 
the past few seasons. Welsh, Petrisen. 
RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE, 
Perdix rufa. 
Almost unknown. About six or seven 
years ago a young bird was killed at 
Scethrog, near Brecon, by the late 
Mr. Williams, of Manest, in a _ turnip 
field. About six months afterwards, 
a gentleman living in Ashbrook Place, 
Brecon, on going into his’ garden, 
saw something running along’ the 
ground, and, it being late in the 
evening, he succeeded in catching it, and 
sent for a well known sportsman to look 
at it; he at once pronounced it to be 
a Red-legged Partridge, in excellent 
plumage, and no doubt a bird bred in 
the county ; it lived for four or five days, 
but its extreme wildness caused its 
_ death. He afterwards related the cir- 
