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success. They have also been tried in some of the English 

 counties." Two or three authors have recorded that a quan- 

 tity of the Virginian Partridge were turned down by Edward 

 John Littleton, Esq. on his estates at Teddesley, in Staf- 

 fordshire ; and one gentleman states that the guard of a 

 coach informed him that he had the care of a basket of these 

 birds by his coach ; that they all by some accident got out 

 and flew away ; and that in the part of the country where 

 they made their escape (the name of the place was forgotten), 

 they had bred and increased exceedingly. In the collection 

 of Mr. Henson, at Cambridge, was a specimen of this bird 

 which was killed at Holkham, and in reference to the exist- 

 ence of this species in Norfolk, the Rev. Richard Lubbock 

 wrote me as follows : — " A nest was found at Barton in this 

 county, three or four years back, containing numerous white 

 eggs, which were sold to a bird preserver in Norwich. Two 

 are in my possession. I endeavoured to ascertain the whole 

 number of the eggs, but could not : there must have been 

 above a dozen. The nest was found in a marsh. Mr. Coke, 

 I have understood, turned oif many of these birds at Holk- 

 ham, Avith what ultimate success I know not. This made 

 me suppose that the eggs in question might belong to this 

 bird, particularly as a fen-man near the place where this nest 

 is said to have been found, mentioned to me his having seen 

 a bird like a Partridge in flight, but much smaller. Mr. 

 Salmon, of Thetford, had some of these eggs ; and I think 

 he told me he showed them to Mr. Hewitson." 



On comparing the outline of one of these eggs with three 

 specimens of the eggs of Ortijx Virgimana in my own collec- 

 tion, received from America, the accordance was so exact as 

 to leave no doubt that they belonged to the same species ; and 

 lastly, I may add that a few years back Mr. Leadbeater re- 

 ceived three or four freshly killed specimens, with directions 

 to mount them together in one case. These birds had been 



