CHAPTER VI. 



PARTRIDGE COVERTS AND FOXES. 



In a work giving instructions how best to protect 

 game from foxes, and especially nesting game, it 

 would be folly to ignore the advantages of partridge 

 coverts, which are found most useful on the large 

 partridge estates in the Eastern Counties. There 

 they are provided for the sake of the nesting 

 accommodation they yield, and the cover they 

 afford for holding the birds, foxes being a negligible 

 quantity. Various are the ideas followed in plant- 

 ing these coverts, but with them the author has 

 nothing to do, as the covert he wishes to see in 

 a hunting country is designed to protect nesting 

 pairs from foxes, and if it is successful in this 

 regard the rest may be ignored. 



It is not advisable to plant a partridge covert at 

 any spot, and if possible a site should be selected 

 to which the birds are partial at all times and 

 under ordinary circumstances ; choose some field 

 they are fond of frequenting, which is high and 



