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in his Natural History of Selborne, I have met with 

 it about Petersfield and Butser Hill, as well as at 

 Liss, which lies only four miles south from Selborne ; 

 and the late Mr Bell, in his edition of White's 

 works (vol. ii., p. 365), refers to it as having been 

 met with at Holy bourne, about the same distance to 

 the north of White's village. I have heard of it 

 also at Alresford, and at Thruxton, near Andover, in 

 which direction it seems to have worked its way to 

 the Wiltshire downs. Writing from Calne, which 

 is almost in the centre of the last-named county, 

 the Rev. A. C. Smith says : — 



" It is our good fortune in Wiltshire to know 

 but little of this bird.^ A few stragglers from time 

 to time have made their way into the county, and 

 have been shot at Winterslow, Draycot Park, and 

 Winterbourne Monkton." 



To these localities may be added (on the 

 authority of Mr Im Thurn's list of the Birds around 

 Marlborough) West Woods, Marlborough, Og- 

 bourne, Maizey, and Rabley Copse. Doubtless it 

 has been met with by sportsmen in many other 

 parts of the county. 



In Dorsetshire the Red-legged Partridge would 

 seem to be by no means common, and Mr A. G. 

 More states {Ibis, 1865, p. 428) that attempts to 

 establish it in this county have failed. Pulteney, in 

 his History of Dorsetshire, notices one that was 

 shot at Upwey, near Weymouth ; but Mr Mansell 

 Pleydell, in his Birds of Dorset, states that it has 

 failed to attain a permanent footing in the county. 

 1 Because of its supposed enmity to the Common Partridge. 



