122 RECREATIONS OF A NATUKAl^lSi 



This is somewhat strange since parts of the count)^ 

 are well suited to its habits. 



Proceeding westward, it may be mentioned en 

 passant that the Red-legged Partridge has found its 

 way to the Isle of Wight, where it has been shot at 

 least on two occasions — once near Newchurch, and 

 again near Freshwater. On both occasions only 

 single birds were met with, probably stragglers from 

 the mainland. 



In Devonshire it is almost unknown. It does 

 not appear in Dr Moore's List of Devonshire Birds 

 (Trans. Plym. Instit. 1830), nor in Bellamy's 

 Natural History of South Devon, published in 1837. 

 In Rowe's catalogue of the birds of that county, 

 however, it is stated that " a few specimens have 

 been procured," though no localities are specified. 

 One is recorded to have been shot many years ago- 

 on Waddle's Down, near Whitstone, Newton St 

 Cyres ; and Messrs D'Urban and Mathew in 

 their Birds of Devonshire have noted a few more 

 instances of its occurrence in the county. 



According to the late Mr Rodd, the Red-legged 

 Partridge is unknown in Cornwall {Birds of 

 Cornwall, p. ']']^ ; but in the Appendix, which I 

 furnished to his book, I pointed out (p. 310) that 

 in the Monthly Magazine for December 1808 the 

 author of a list of Devon and Cornish vertebrates 

 (believed to be a Mr James, of Manaccan), remarks : 

 " I have been told that Charles Rashleigh, Esq., of 

 St Austell, procured from abroad some of the 

 red-legged birds and turned them loose, and that they 

 have multiplied,''' a statement repeated in the same 



