SOME RECORDS AND COMPARISONS 231 
burgh, Ayr, Fife, Forfar, and Perth, all embrace, . 
within the marches of their lowlands, fertile plains 
and valleys where, as he reckons up a plentiful bag 
of partridges, the shooter can see the leap of the 
salmon in the pool, or hear the cock grouse crow 
upon the range of moorland, which, crowned by the 
snowy outline of the Highlands, closes the distance. 
In England, Yorkshire and Nottingham fall but 
a short way behind the Eastern counties, while 
Chester, Salop, and Stafford, in the north-west, 
Northampton and Hertford in the centre, Wilts, Hants, 
and Dorset in the south, have thousands of acres of 
stubble and fallow, turnips and clover, on which the 
coveys are neither few nor far between, and a bag 
may be made worthy of any team of guns. 
In many of these there are spots where the oppor- 
tunities for game, and partridges in particular, have 
not been studied or developed. Wherever there is 
light and well-drained soil, good water and a bracing 
climate, with thick fences or other natura nesting 
ground, there can partridges be made to increase and 
multiply. 
Let landowners, large and small, carefully consider 
whether, by studying the production and protection 
of partridges on the principles followed by the few - 
who have made these a scientific study as well as a 
