40 RESIDENTS AND MIGRANTS. 
RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE. Perdix rufa, Latham. 
Introduced about the year 1770*, and now a local 
resident, gradually extending its range. A single 
specimen only is recorded to have been met with in 
Scotland, near Aberdeen}; and in Ireland it is un- 
known, except as an introduced species in the 
county of Galwayf. Messrs. Baikie and Heddle 
state (‘Fauna Orcadensis, p. 56) that this species, 
together with the Common Partridge, was introduced 
into Orkney in 1840, by the Earl of Orkney. 
Some interesting remarks upon the migratory 
habits of this species will be found in Stevenson’s 
‘ Birds of Norfolk,’ pp. 413-416. 
QUAIL. Coturnia vulgaris, Fleming. 
Generally regarded as a summer migrant to the 
British Islands; but numbers remain during the 
winter, especially in Ireland. On the east of Scotland, 
strange to say, it is by no means so common as on 
the west, although met with in nearly all the counties 
from Berwick to Orkney. Its range northward and 
westward extends to the Outer Hebrides, where the 
nest has been found in Lewis and North Uist. 
* Cf. Dr. Clarke (of Ipswich), in Charlesworth’s ‘Magazine of 
Natural History’ for 1839, p. 142. 
+ Gray, ‘ Birds of the West of Scotland,’ p. 243. 
+ Thompson, ‘ Nat. Hist. Ireland’ (Birds), ii. p. 65. 
