40 RESIDENTS AND MIGRANTS. 



EED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE. Perdix rufa, Latham. 



Introduced about the year 1770*, and now a local 

 resident, gradually extending its range. A single 

 specimen only is recorded to have been met with in 

 Scotland, near Aberdeen f; and in Ireland it is un- 

 known, except as an introduced species in the 

 county of GalwayJ. Messrs. Baikie and Heddle 

 state (' Fauna Orcadensis,' p. 56) that this species, 

 together with the Common Partridge, was introduced 

 into Orkney in 1840, by the Earl of Orkney. 



Some interesting remarks upon the migratory 

 habits of this species will be found in Stevenson's 

 ' Birds of Norfolk,' pp. 413-416. 



QUAIL. Coturnix vulgaris, Fleming. 



Generally regarded as a summer migrant to the 

 British Islands; but numbers remain during the 

 winter, especially in Ireland. On the east of Scotland, 

 strange to say, it is by no means so common as on 

 the west, although met with in nearly all the counties 

 from Berwick to Orkney. Its range northward and 

 westward extends to the Outer Hebrides, where the 

 nest has been found in Levns and North Uist. 



* Cf. Dr. Clarke (of Ipswich), in Charlesworth's ' Magazine of 

 Natural History' for 1839, p. 142. 



t Gfray, ' Birds of the "West of Scotland,' p. 243. 

 X Thompson^ ' Nat. Hist. Ireland ' (Birds), ii. p. 65. 



