vi PARTRIDGES 



known to - day about the bird and its 

 ways. 



In advancing this claim, the writer is 

 by no means oblivious of Mr. Charles 

 Allington's manual of Partridge Driv- 

 ing, a wholly admirable work which has 

 proved an unfailing source of useful 

 advice through seven years of practical 

 application of its principles on partridge 

 ground. But this is admittedly a book 

 written by an expert for the use of ex- 

 perts, and for general purposes the volume 

 of the 'Fur and Feather' series on the 

 partridge remains the standard work on 

 the subject. While Mr. Stuart- Wortley's 

 chapters will always be delightful reading 

 perhaps no writer on sport ever achieved 

 such facility and grace of expression yet 

 things have moved apace in the partridge 

 world since this book was published fifteen 

 years ago, and modern methods of pre- 

 servation differ vastly from those then 

 in force. 1 



1 For example, on page 33 of this work occurs the 

 sentence, "Certainly it is best that the majority of 



