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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 heen shot at Upway, 

 near Wey mouth, in Dorsetshire ; and this suggests the 

 possibility of its sometimes reaching this country from 

 Guernsey or Jersey. The Rev. Richard Lubbock, in some 

 Ornithological notes sent me, mentions that these birds are 

 becoming more and more common in Norfolk, and that they 

 occasionally change their ground, as he has known them 

 abundant upon an estate in one year, and none to be seen 

 there in the next, though the breeding was equally favour- 

 able in both seasons. That these birds sometimes take very 

 long flights, is inferred from the circumstance that the Rev. 

 T. Fowler, of Col ton, near the coast between Yarmouth and 

 Lowestoft, told Mr. Lubbock he knew two instances in 

 which four or five Red-legged Partridges were found upon 

 the beach there, in so fatigued a state, that they were run 

 down by the boatmen, after endeavouring to conceal them- 

 selves in piles of sea-weed, and under the fishing-boats 

 drawn up on the sand. The authors of the Catalogue of 

 Norfolk and Suffolk Birds, published in the fifteenth 

 volume of the Transactions of the Linnean Society, say : 

 " These birds are now very plentiful in some parts of 

 Suffolk. We have seen at least one hundred and fifty 

 brace upon Dummingworth-heath, and they are found 

 in greater or less numbers from Aldborough to Wood- 

 bridge." They are now making their appearance in Lin- 

 colnshire ; have been taken in Cambridgeshire ; and within 

 the last few years I have known three examples killed 

 very near Royston, in Hertfordshire, one of which was 

 shot out of a covey. The Rev. Richard Lubbock, in his 

 Fauna of Norfolk, mentions that in the beginning of 

 January, 1845, he was called into a bird -preserver's shop 

 to look at a curious hybrid, believed to be bred between a 



