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Mr A. G. More states [I.e.) that attempts to 

 establish it in Derbyshire have failed, but we learn 

 from Garner's Natural History of Staffordshire (p. 

 270) that it has been introduced at Teddesley in 

 that county, though the author considers it "no 

 desideratum for the sportsman." 



In Lancashire the Red-legged Partridge waa 

 turned down at Rufford in some numbers by the 

 late Sir Thomas Hesketh about 1862, and by the 

 present baronet in 1879, but all have disappeared. 



Messrs Coward and Oldham, in their Birds of 

 Cheshire (p. 190), state that, although occasionally 

 reared from introduced eggs, this bird has never 

 succeeded in establishing itself in Cheshire. In 

 Shropshire it appears to be almost as rare. A few 

 have been shot at Churchstoke, near the Braidden, 

 and at Weston Park and Willey, where the eggs 

 were introduced, some were hatched in the nests 

 of the Common Partridge. 



In Cambridge, Huntingdon, Northampton, and 

 Rutland, it is reported to be found, breeding 

 occasionally ; and as we proceed southward we find 

 it in Berkshire, where (as already mentioned) it is 

 said to have been introduced at Windsor in Charles 

 the Second's time, in Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire 

 (where it is now resident and becoming common), 

 and in Hertfordshire, where the present stock may 

 perhaps be descended from those originally turned 

 out by the Earl of Rochford in the adjoining county 

 of Essex. 



In the metropolitan county, where the farms are 

 nearly all grass, and therefore not at all suited to 



