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RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE. 



GUERNSEY PAETEIDGE. FEENCH PAETEIDGE. 



Perdix rufa, MONTAGU. FLEMING. 



Tetrao rufus, BEWICK. 



Perdix A Partridge. Rufa. Rufus Red. 



THIS handsome species is a native of various parts of the 

 south of Europe, being plentiful in Germany, France, Portugal, 

 Spain, and Italy, and also met with in Austria, Bohemia, and 

 Switzerland, likewise in Guernsey and Jersey, and it is said 

 in Madeira. It also occurs plentifully in the north of Africa, 

 and in Asia in Japan. 



Red-legged Partridges were introduced into this country in 

 the reign of King Charles the Second in the neighbourhood 

 of Windsor, and afterwards more recently by the Duke of 

 Northumberland, and the Earl of Rochford; also by the 

 Marquis of Hertford at Sudbourn, near Orford, in Suffolk, 

 and by Lord Rendlesham, at Rendlesham, in the same neigh- 

 bourhood. These have increased, and are now abundant upon 

 Dunmingworth Heath, and from Aldborough to Woodbriclge, 

 from whence they have spread over the adjoining counties. 

 Some were turned out by the Marquis of Hastings, at Don- 

 nington Park, Derbyshire, but a few seasons saw them 

 extinguished. The Rev. T. Fowler, in two instances, has known 

 these birds found upon the beach in an exhausted state, as 

 if after a long flight. They have been met with in Essex, 

 near Colchester. In Yorkshire several are said to have been 

 shot near Doncaster. Some have made their appearance in 

 Roger Wildrake's 'moist county of Lincoln;' others near 

 Royston, in Hertfordshire; and the species has been met with 

 at Upway, near Weymouth, Dorsetshire. 



The Hon. Thomas Littleton Powys has written to me of 



