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which is known to many people as "the Guernsey 

 Partridge," is believed to be now extinct in 

 Guernsey, and a few only are said to exist still in 

 Jersey. On this point an interesting note by Mr 

 Cecil Smith will be found in the Zoologist for 

 1880, p. 397. 



In Scotland the Red-legged Partridge has once 

 been met with. In January 1867 a solitary indi- 

 vidual of this species was found with a covey of 

 Common Partridges and shot within two miles of 

 Aberdeen. It was supposed to be an accidental 

 visitor from the south, no others having been seen 

 or heard of before or since in any part of Scotland. 

 Can it have been the last surviving descendant of 

 the old Northumbrian stock reared at Alnwick ? 



Messrs Baikie and Heddle, in their Historia 

 Naturalis Orcadensis, printed in 1848, state that in 

 1840 the Red-legged Partridge was introduced 

 into Orkney with some of the common species by 

 the Earl of Orkney, but that they were unaware 

 what success had attended the experiment. 



The Grey Partridge was introduced into 

 Orkney long before the red-legged species. Low, 

 in his Fauna Orcadensis, published in 18 13, says : — 



" Partridges were transported into this country 

 some years ago and placed in Walls by the then 

 proprietor, but I scarce think they have come to 

 anything. I once saw one of them, which was shot 

 by mistake in Hoy, which is about twelve miles 

 from the place where they were first placed, but 

 never heard of any other of the original colony 

 (though it consisted of several pairs), or of their 



