AMERICAN ORTYX. Ill 



and holding the place in the new world which the 

 partridges do in the old, frequenting the borders 

 of woods, roosting and occasionally perching on trees. 

 Colonel Montague notices a specimen of the Virgi- 

 nian Ortyx shot near Mansfield, and some time 

 previous to that, states, that some had been turned 

 out. Staffordshire, Cambridge, and Norfolk, are also 

 mentioned as localities where they have been tried, 

 but we have been unable to trace exactly what has 

 been the success of the trials. 



