PAETRIDGE NESTING HABITS 151 



the human intelligence directing the hunt. In 

 long past ages, when the wild ancestors of the 

 modern foxhound coursed the hills and the 

 plains, that intelligence was lacking, and the 

 artifice was always likely to succeed. Now, 

 among the smaller folk whose conditions are 

 much the same as they have ever been, the 

 ruse is practised as one of the principal means for 

 the preservation of life. 



