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years afterwards ; and I find other record of this bird 

 having been killed in Berkshire. Mr. Daniel further states 

 that the late Duke of Northumberland preserved many in 

 hopes of their increasing upon his manors, and he also adds, 

 that he himself, in 1777, found a covey of fourteen within 

 two miles of Colchester. Some attempts were also made 

 by the late Earl of Rochford. Dr. W. B. Clarke, of 

 Ipswich, says, in Mr. Charlesworth's Magazine of Natural 

 History for 1839, that numbers were introduced into 

 England about the year 1770 by the Marquis of Hertford 

 and Lord Bendlesham, each of whom had eggs procured on 

 the Continent, carefully brought to England, and placed 

 under domestic fowls ; the former at Sudbourn, near Orford, 

 in Suffolk, one of his shooting residences ; the latter on 

 his estates at Rendlesham, a few miles distant from Sud- 

 bourn ; from these places the birds have been gradually 

 extending themselves over the adjoining counties. 



As will be seen by the names quoted at the commence- 

 ment of this subject, the Red-legged Partridge is sometimes 

 called the Guernsey Partridge, and it is found at Guernsey 

 and Jersey. These Channel Islands, as they are frequently 

 called, were probably at one time the most western locality 

 of this species ; but Mr. E. T. Bennett, and the R/ev. L. 

 Jenyns, have each referred to the Pulteney Catalogue, in 

 which it is stated that this species has been shot at Upway, 

 near Weymouth, in Dorsetshire ; and this suggests the 

 possibility of its sometimes reaching this country from 

 Guernsey or Jersey. The Rev. Richard Lubbock, in some 

 Ornithological notes sent me, mentions that these birds are 

 becoming more and more common in Norfolk, and that it 

 occasionally changes its ground, as he has known it abund- 

 ant upon an estate in one year, and none to be seen there 

 in the next, though the breeding was equally favourable in 





