190 BIRDS OF CHESHIRE. 
The Red-legged Partridge, Caccabis rufa (Linnzus), 
is occasionally reared from introduced eggs, but has 
never succeeded in establishing itself in Cheshire, and 
the birds which are shot from time to time have no 
claim to a place in a local avifauna. 
QUAIL. 
CoTURNIX COMMUNIS, Bonnaterre. 
But-for-But. 
The Quail, an occasional summer visitor to Cheshire, 
has only been noticed at irregular intervals, and in 
most years is entirely absent. In the summer of 1870, 
when this species was plentiful in many parts of 
England, it was several times observed in Cheshire. 
A nest with eggs was taken on Mr. Leather’s farm at 
Delamere,! and the Rev. C. Wolley-Dod heard the call- 
note of the bird in August in a field of wheat near 
Malpas.?_ Brockholes, whose Wirral list was published 
in 1874, describes the Quail as ‘a scarce summer 
visitor to Leasowe, Bidston, Rock Ferry, Bebington, 
Ness, and Burton.”* His remarks probably refer to 
the invasion of 1870, as does Mr. J. EK. Smith’s record 
of a bird at Timperley. Dr. Dobie says, on the 
authority of Mr. T. H. Hignett, that some years ago 
Quail were frequently killed on Sealand.® 
On September 7th, 1882, Mr. 8. H. Woodhouse 
flushed three Quails at Kingsley, near Frodsham, and 
1 Rev. W. D. Fox, Field, vol. xxxvii. p. 20. 1871. 
2 Field, vol. xxxvii. p. 38. 
3 Brockholes, op. cié. p. 10. 
4 Manchester City News, May 16, 1874. 
> Dobie, op. cit. p. 330. 
