58 NATURAL HISTORY OF THE PARTRIDGE 
tail had been shot away ; the tarsi and feet are pale 
brownish-yellow.’ 
In the autumn of 1876, six birds of this variety 
were shot at Glasshough, near Partsoy, N.B., in the 
month of October, and fell into the hands of Mr. 
George Sim, of Aberdeen. Mr. Sim stated that the 
females, of which there were four, were all alike in 
plumage, being brown on the breast, while the upper 
parts are beautifully marked with transverse bars of 
light brown over a ground colour of drab, the brown 
being of greater density in some individuals than in 
others. The males differed markedly from the females, 
having a preponderance of the rich grouse-like chest- 
nut-brown on the back as well as on the breast. 
In the year 1868, the late Mr. Robert Gray saw 
in the hands of a Dundee bird-stuffer a pair of par- 
tridges that had been shot on the higher grounds 
of Forfarshire a short time previously. They were 
strikingly handsome birds, and agreed precisely with 
the partridge figured by Sir William Jardine as Perdix 
cinerea, var. montana. ‘The keeper who shot them 
distinguished them as ‘hill partridges,’ and Mr. Gray 
was informed that small numbers of this variety were 
occasionally seen in the lower grounds, mixing with 
coveys of the common species. Mr. J. A. Harvie 
Brown suggested that the variation of the Forfarshire 
