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the requirements of this bird, it is nevertheless met 

 with as a straggler from Hertfordshire and Essex. 

 I have notes of its occurrence about Stanmore, 

 Elstree, and Brockley Hill ; and in September 1880, 

 when shooting at Northaw, near Barnet, I picked 

 up the remains of a "red-leg," which had evidently- 

 been killed and partly eaten by a Peregrine Falcon. 



Some fifteen years ago the Red-legged Partridge 

 was reported to be breeding occasionally in Kent, 

 and probably it is now as well known there as it is 

 in Sussex, to which county I have already referred. 

 The author of the well-known Ornithological 

 Rambles in Sussex (p. 169) states that : — 



"In July 1841 two coveys of 'red-legs' were 

 hatched under hens, and turned down on a manor 

 in the parish of Kirdford, in the Weald of Sussex. 

 They were observed there for nearly a fortnight, 

 when they suddenly disappeared. During the 

 following September a small covey was sprung 

 near Bolney, about twenty miles further west, and a 

 brace shot, probably a remnant of the Kirdford 

 birds." 



Here then we have another centre of dispersal 

 in Sussex, besides that at Uppark already men- 

 tioned ; and now it would seem that in this county 

 the bird is universally distributed, for I have shot 

 " red-legs " at such widely distant localities as Three 

 Bridges, Frant, Uckfield, Hellingly, Hassocks 

 Gate, West Grinstead, Midhurst, Harting, and 

 Chichester. 



In Hampshire, where it was unknown in the 

 days of Gilbert White, who makes no mention of it 



