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west coast of Scotland, nor would I 

 seek for an instant to discourage any one 

 from the attempt; only let him 'gang 

 warily,' and, despite what he may find 

 in books on the subject, by no means 

 consider success in his praiseworthy 

 efforts assured from the start. 



There is one partridge from Western 

 Mongolia (P. barbata or dauricd), whom 

 it would be quite reasonable to assume 

 would do well with us, accustomed as 

 he is to a cold, wet climate and a heavy 

 soil. He is not unlike our own grey 

 partridge in general appearance, save for 

 the superior attractions of a black horse- 

 shoe on a golden-buff breast, and the 

 remarkable addition to the ordinary garb 

 of a partridge in the form of well-grown 

 ginger whiskers, or to speak more scientific- 

 ally yet perhaps less descriptively, of 

 certain elongated lanceolate feathers on 

 the sides of the throat. He would be 

 an attractive novelty in a countryside, 

 and perchance one's eye might be caught 

 by his flowing whiskers as he topped the 



