112 PARTRIDGES 



streams afford natural drinking-places for 

 the partridges, it is advisable to give the 

 birds drinking-fountains in dry and hot 

 summers. It is true that they can manage 

 well enough without them, but numerous 

 self-feeding fountains placed in the fields 

 and kept clean and sweet will well repay 

 any extra trouble they may entail, by 

 helping to keep the stock healthy. Mr. 

 F. E. Fryer, whose management of a 

 small estate at Newmarket entitles him 

 to speak with the voice of authority 

 does not his land produce 1^ birds to the 

 acre? considers this a sure precaution 

 against gapes, which scourge may well, 

 as he suggests, come from birds drinking 

 in the nearest dirty puddle after a shower, 

 and thus absorbing the embryo gape- 

 worm. 



Remises, or sanctuaries provided for 

 shelter, food, and nesting, are scarcely 

 germane to the subject of preservation in 

 general, for they are a luxury which only 

 the very few, to whom money is no 

 object, can well afford. A description of 



