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in Potter’s ‘History of Charnwood Forest,’ states on the authority 
of Mr. C. March Phillipps, that a variety with white horse-shoe 
markings occurred on Charnwood. Mr. T. Woodcock, of Ratcliffe- 
on-the-Wreake, wrote me on Sept. 3rd, 1885, that there were three 
white Partridges, in a covey of nine or ten, on the Garthorpe 
estate, near Melton Mowbray. I saw a curious light sandy variety, 
in the possession of Sir Arthur Hazlerigg, shot at Noseley some 
years ago. The ‘Leicester Daily Post’ recorded that just after 
the great storm of the 18th and 19th January, 1881, a bricklayer 
captured a Partridge in a hole of the damaged roof of a house 
in Lower Bond Street, Leicester. A still more curious circum- 
stance is recorded by Mr. Davenport, who wrote Dec. 11th, 1885, 
“T know of a covey of seven cocks and one hen reared this 
summer under a hen fowl on Mr. G. V. Braithwaite’s estate at 
Stackley, which now come out of the fields to a whistle, and are 
so tame as to perch on the shoulders and feed out of the hands of 
the lady of the house.” Writing again on Feb. 1st, 1886, he says, 
“Those Partridges, reduced by one cock, come every morning to 
be fed, just as they did in September —a marvellous sight.” 
Coturniz communis, Bonnaterre. Quail—A rare summer 
visitant. The Rev. Churchill Babington (see Potter) says, 
“Several killed one season between Whitwick and Bardon, some 
years ago, by Mr. Grundy, who kept a wounded bird alive for 
some time.” Harley says, “ The Quail’s visits are irregular and 
uncertain, and it appears to be confined to meadow-lands and 
fields contiguous to streams. On the banks of the Soar and its 
meadows the Quail breeds in small numbers. Cossington, 
Barrow, Sileby, Thureaston, and some other villages having low 
wet meadows adjoining thereunto, are yearly visited.” On the 
evening of November 15th, 1846, a Quail was captured in the 
market-place, Leicester. A second example was shot on Mr. Win- 
stanley’s estate at Braunstone, on the 20th November, of the same 
year. Quails have been met with and shot at Tilton, and in the 
Vale of Belvoir, where Mr. Ingram thinks it occasionally breeds, 
as he has shot immature birds there with others; near Melton 
Mowbray, and not far from Leicester. The Earl of Gainsborough, 
who has most obligingly given me his notes on the fauna of Rut- 
land for incorporation in this list, tells me that he has shot a few 
Quails at Exton Park, and that this bird has also occurred at 
Whitwell, Burley-on-the-Hill, Thistleton, and Ayston. 
