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Mr E. Cambridge Phillips, in his Birds of 

 Brecon, says : — 



" About six or seven years ago a young bird of 

 this species was killed at Scethrog, near Brecon, 

 by Mr Williams, of Manest, in a turnip field. 

 About six months afterwards another was caught 

 in a garden at Brecon, and was kept alive for some 

 days. Mr Williams thinks that Mr Alfred 

 Crawshay, of Talybont, turned out a couple of 

 Red-legged Partridges about a year previously, 

 and that they must have hatched a small brood. 

 In the autumn following he believes there were 

 four or five young ones, and he surmises that the 

 bird he shot and also the bird caught in Brecon 

 were two of them ; the remainder were not seen 

 afterwards. Mr Williams is an indefatigable 

 sportsman, and has shot over the greater part of 

 the county for the last thirty years, and these are 

 the only two he has ever seen or heard of as being 

 killed." 



Thus far, then, are we enabled to trace the 

 present distribution of the Red-legged Partridge in 

 this country. From the foregoing remarks it will 

 be seen that, although there has been of late years 

 a tendency with this bird to move westward — a 

 tendency which has been strengthened by the 

 introduction here and there of imported birds or 

 eggs— it is nevertheless still most plentiful (and 

 sportsmen who enjoy a " Partridge drive" will add 

 " most appreciated ") in the eastern counties, where 

 it was first introduced. 



It may be remarked incidentally that this bird, 



