NATURE AND SPORT IN BRITAIN 



ridge. From 12 to 13 ounces may be said to be about 

 the average of a well-grown bird of the year in good 

 condition. Occasional specimens will not infrequently 

 exceed this weight, and there are records of birds 

 attaining as much as 16 and 17 ounces. The average 

 weight of a " Frenchman," or red-legged partridge, 

 is from 16 to 18 ounces, and birds of this species have 

 been shot which scaled as much as 22, 23, and even 25 

 ounces. A 25-ounce partridge is, even for a " French- 

 man," an enormous bird. Such an one was, however, 

 shot at Hanworth, in Norfolk, in or about the year 1881, 

 and its claim to a record duly established. 



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