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(in 65° N. lat.). The Eev. J. Fellman also says that it has been seen and captured in Kuusamo 

 (in 66° N. lat.) ; but north of that it does not appear to have been met with. When in Finland, 

 many years ago, I frequently saw it near Wyburg, where it did not appear to be rare. 



In Eussia it ranges tolerably far north. Meves says that he was informed that it occurs in 

 Wuitegra; and according to Kessler it has only lately spread into the Olonetz Government. 

 Mr. Sabanaeff says that it is gradually, but surely, extending its range northward, and it is now 

 found in the south-western portions of the Vologda Government, in that of Kostroma, and 

 throughout the southern portions of the Viatka and Perm Governments, where, not long 

 previously, it was scarcely known. It breeds in the cultivated portions of the south-eastern and 

 south-western slopes of the Ural, and has of late years reached Tagila. Teplouhoff says that it 

 breeds sparingly on the Obva in 58-|° N. lat. Throughout the whole of Poland, Mr. Taczanowski 

 says, it is very common and resident. 



In Germany it is resident, and very generally distributed throughout the country, except in 

 the more mountainous districts ; and Mr. Jonas Collin says that it is common and resident 

 throughout the whole of Denmark, except Bornholm, but during severe winters it is to some 

 extent migratory. Mr. H. M. Labouchere informs me that it is found throughout Holland, 

 being, however, most numerous on the dunes, which are partially wooded and clothed with 

 brushwood, but it is likewise met with on the moors. In Belgium it is common in the moister 

 and more fertile portions of the country, but rarer in the arid districts ; and in France it is very 

 common in the northern and central departments, but rare in the south, where it is replaced by 

 the Red-legged Partridge. In Portugal it is extremely rare. Professor Barboza du Bocage does 

 not include it in his list; but the Eev. A. C. Smith (Ibis, 1868, p. 450) states that a specimen 

 was obtained and sent to the Lisbon Museum just before he visited that town ; and in Spain it 

 is, according to Mr. Howard Saunders (Ibis, 1871, p. 223), " almost unknown south of the Sierra 

 Morena and, I might say, south of the Guadarrama range. One specimen is in the Murcia 

 collection." Colonel Irby informs me that it is found in Liebena, in the province of Santander ; 

 and Dr. A. E. Brehrn states also that it replaces the Eed-legged Partridge in Asturia, Leon. 

 Upper Catalonia, and here and there in Arragon. In Savoy it is said to be, to some extent, 

 migratory, and to some extent resident ; and it is found throughout Italy, except in the Medi- 

 terranean islands. It has been stated to have occurred in Sardinia and Sicily, but apparently 

 without valid reasons. Mr. A. B. Brooke states (Ibis, 1873, p. 335) that a good sportsman 

 assured him that he had shot the common Partridge in the north of Sardinia, but he himself 

 never saw a specimen; and neither Doderlein nor Benoit ever succeeded in obtaining it in 

 Sicily. It appears to be less numerous in Southern Germany than it is in the north; but 

 Dr. A. Fritsch says that as the forests are by degrees cut down and the country becomes more 

 cultivated it increases in Bohemia. He gives the total number of Partridges returned as shot in 

 Bohemia in three years as follows :— in 1857, 301159 ; in 1863, 536806 ; and in 1864, 586195 head. 

 The Eitter von Tschusi-Schmidhofen states, in his Notes on the Ornithology of the Riesengebirge, 

 that "Partridges were observed by the gamekeeper at the Tannenstein in 1865, and near St. 

 Peter in 1867; at the latter place several specimens were killed. It occurs only occasionally in 

 autumn." In Transylvania, according to Messrs. Danford and Harvie-Brown (Ibis, 1875, p. 417), 

 it is " generally distributed on the low ground, but is not numerous. Herr Buda Adam shot one 



