108 CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 



Grey Partridge, Perdu cinerea, Latham. 



S. and W. Cat 35. 



Districts all. Common everywhere. 



Nests. 



A brace of white birds were killed at Kettleburgh in 1823. 

 Partridges are said to be of a lighter colour at Blakenham 

 than is usual ; this is perhaps owing to the chalky nature 

 of the soil (S. and W. u. s.). Examples with pale cream- 

 coloured head and neck were shot at Thornham in 1857, 

 and in 1862 ; this variety disappeared about 1872 or 

 1873; the first killed are less distinctly marked than the 

 later ones (Lord Henniker v. v. who has several, C. B. !) 



Red-Legged Partridge, Perdix rufa, Latham. 



S. and W. Cat. 34. 



Districts all. Common or not uncommon everywhere. 

 u On the heathy tract near the coast, it far exceeds the common 

 species in numbers " (J. D. Hoy in a letter to Mr. Selby from 

 Stoke in 1828. See Field Nov. 1867). Nests. A nearly 

 white variety shot on the property of Archdeacon Rerners 

 of Woolverstone Park, in the autumn of 1851 (R. P. C. in 

 Nat. i. (1851), 142). A white variety shot near Ipswich, 

 preserved by Podd, in Mr. J". H. Gurney's Collection (C. B.! 

 perhaps the same bird) ; another from Holbrook given by H. 

 Rod well, Esq to the Ipswich Museum. A buff-coloured one 

 fromTrimley in Mr. W. P. T. Phillips's Collection (Phillips 

 in Hit.). This bird, often called the French Partridge, was 

 introduced into the Eastern Counties about the year 1770, 

 when Lord Hertford and Lord Rendlesham imported a great 

 quantity of eggs, and hatched them under domestic fowls. 

 These birds were turned off at Sudbourn and Rendlesham, 

 In 1826 they were very plentiful in some parts of Suffolk 

 (S. and W. u. s), and have been so ever since. The bird 

 was first introduced into West Suffolk by Lord Alvanley 

 and Lord de Ros in 1823, when many eggs were brought 

 over from France, and distributed about Culford and the 

 neighbourhood; the Duke of Norfolk and Mr. Waddington 

 had a good many at Fornham and at Cavenham ; Mr. 



