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killed in Bcrksliire. Mr, Daniel further states that the late 

 Duke of Northumberland preserved many in hopes of their 

 increasing upon his manors, and he also adds, that he him- 

 self, in 1777, found a covey of fourteen within two miles of 

 Colchester. Some attempts were also made by the late 

 Earl of Rochford. Dr. W. B. Clarke, of Ipswich, says, 

 in Mr. Charleswortli''s Magazine of Natural History for 

 1839, that numbers were introduced into England about the 

 year 1770 by the Marquis of Hertford and Lord Rendles- 

 ham, each of whom had eggs procured on the Continent, 

 carefully brought to England, and placed under domestic 

 fowls ; the former at Sudbourn, near Orford, in Suffolk, one 

 of his shooting residences ; the latter on his estates at Rend- 

 lesham, a few miles distant from Sudbourn ; from these places 

 the birds have been gradually extending themselves over the 

 adjoining counties. 



As will be seen by the names quoted at the commence- 

 ment of this subject, the Red-legged Partridge is sometimes 

 called the Guernsey Partridge, and it is found at Guernsey 

 and Jersey. These Channel Islands, as they are frequently 

 called, were probably at one time the most western locality 

 of this species; but Mr. E. T. Bennett, and the Rev. L. 

 Jenyns, have each referred to the Pulteney Catalogue, in 

 which it is stated that this species has been shot at Upway, 

 near Weymouth, in Dorsetshire ; and this suggests the pos- 

 sibility of its sometimes reaching this country from Guernsey 

 or Jersey. The Rev. Richard Lubbock, in some Ornitholo- 

 gical notes sent me, mentions that these birds are becoming 

 more and more common in Norfolk, and that it occasionally 

 changes its ground, as he has known it abundant upon an 

 estate in one year, and none to be seen there in the next, 

 though the breeding was equally favourable in both seasons. 

 That these birds sometimes take very long flights, is inferred 

 from the circumstance that the Rev. T. Fowler, of Colton, 



