428 Mr. A. G. More on the Distribution of Birds 



present. The bird inhabits Islay and Jura {Thompso7i, B. Brit, 

 ii. p. 45), Mull [Mr. H. D. GraA^m), Dumbarton {Mr. R. Gray), 

 Argyle, Perth, and all the counties northward. Mr. John Mac- 

 gillivray found the Ptarmigan sparingly in South Uist, and it 

 has only recently been exterminated in Hoy. 



Perdix cinerea {Lath.). Common Partridge. 



Provinces I.-XVII. 

 Subprovinces 1-35. 

 Lat. 50°-59°. " British " type, or general. 



Throughout Great Britain, being only less common where the 

 land has not been brought into cultivation. 



The Partridge is probably a colonist in the northern portion 

 of its present range, having followed the progress of tillage. 



Messrs. Baikie and Heddle inform us that it has been, within 

 a few years, successfully introduced into the islands of Bousay 

 and Shapinshay, in Orkney. 



Caccabis rufa (G. R. Gray). Red-legged Partridge. 



Provinces III. IV. VIII. X. XII. 



Subprovinces 7, 8-12, 13?, 19, 20, 23, 25. 



Lat. 50°-55". Not native. "Germanic " type. Not in Ireland. 



Introduced about one hundred years ago, the Red-legged Par- 

 tridge has become very numerous in some of the eastern counties, 

 where, in the struggle for life, it has been stated to have in some 

 places nearly supplanted the Common Grey Partridge. 



There must be some local influences that limit the range of 

 the Red-legged Partridge in this country, since the attempts made 

 to establish it in Dorset, Hereford, Derby, and East Yorkshire 

 appear to have failed ; nor has the bird hitherto spread to any 

 of our south-western shires. I am informed by Mr. T. Gough 

 that it Las bred regularly of late years in Westmoreland. 



The bird is returned as now breeding occasionally in Kent 

 {Mr. G. Jell). In Essex, Herts, Oxford (occasionally), Bucks, 

 Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridge, Huntingdon (occasionally), North- 

 ampton (occasionally), Lincoln, Rutland (occasionally), and 

 West York (very rarely) . 



The Rev F. J. Scott believes that it is established in the hills 



