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fond also of basking in thick rushy carrs ; and in low meadows will hide in the sedgy margins of 

 the watercourses, where I have shot them late in the season when looking for Snipe." 



It has been supposed by some observers that a partial migration of this species takes place 

 on our east coast ; but after going very fully into this question, Mr. Stevenson shows that the 

 balance of evidence is against this being the case ; and I fully agree with him in the conclusions 

 at which he has arrived. 



Eggs of this Partridge in my collection from Norfolk are yellowish buff or stone-buff, 

 sprinkled with dull reddish markings, which in some consist only of fine dots spread over the 

 surface of the shell, whereas in others there are irregular blotches here and there. One speci- 

 men is blotched with pale purplish pink on a pale stone-buff ground. In size my specimens 

 vary from 1£± by 1 ^ to l|ft by 1±%. 



The specimen figured, on the same Plate with Caccabis petrosa, is an adult male from 

 Norfolk, and is the bird described, this and the female being in my collection ; but the young 

 male described is in the collection of Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun. 



In the preparation of the above article I have examined the following specimens : — 



E Mus. E. E. Dresser. 

 a, (J. Norfolk, b, $. Near Hampstead, July 1871 {Davy). 



E Mus. Salvin and Godman. 

 a, b. St. Mary's, Azores, June 1865 (F. D. Godman) . 



E Mus. J. E. Gurney, jun. 



a, ?. Northrepps, Norwich, December 30th, 1865 (/. H. G.). b,juv. Leadenhall Market, September 1870. 

 c. Madrid, 1867. 



E Mus. Howard Saunders, 

 a, 3 . Valencia, January 13th. b, 6 . Malaga, December 24th. 



E Mus. Lord Lilford. 

 a, b, 6 , c, $ . Madrid market, April 1865 (L.). 



