120 FROM SPRING TO FALL. 



as a game-bird, because it prefers running to flying, 

 and unless forced to fly it will trust to its legs for 

 long distances. 



It has been accused, when any number exists 

 of the more robust red-legs, of driving away our 

 common partridge ; but this charge requires con- 

 firmation. So very much indeed are they disliked 

 in some southern counties that no chance, when- 

 ever it offers, is lost of killing the birds and de- 

 stroying their eggs. I have known this done in 

 a most ruthless manner. 



I think the real reason why they are not liked 

 is that they will not flush for the shot, and when 

 they run other creatures are on the look-out — 

 hares, rabbits, and our own partridges ; in fact 

 I have seen field after field upset by these birds 

 rushing over them. This has occurred when rough 

 shooting was going on, such being the term for 

 picking up game that has located itself on waste 

 grounds, away from covers. Then the red-legs 

 would run before the dogs, out on the cultivated 

 fields, for a bit. 



I do not think that the common and the red- 

 legged partridges come very often in contact, be- 



