176 THE RED-LEQGED PARTRIDGE. 



Red-logged Partridge (Perdue ntfa, Mont.) is not found 

 in Scandinavia. Neither is the common Pheasant 

 sianus Colchicus, Linn.), although attempts on a 

 scale were made to introduce it by the late King Oscar. 

 Endeavours to effect that desirable object are, however, 

 still making by a friend of mine in Sweden; but from the 

 severity of the climate, and from the country swarm im; 

 with vermin and birds of prey of all sorts, it is very 

 doubtful, to my thinking, if the experiment will In- 

 attended with success. 



