28 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Partridge ' inn, at Bloxham, has a very old signboard, painted 

 many years ago (sixty or seventy, at least, as far as I can 

 ascertain). It represents a very large Hawk striking at a fat 

 Partridge standing placidly in the middle of a field. A very old 

 keeper once described Harriers to me most accurately, and he 

 called them " Partridge Hawks " (vide ' Birds of Oxon,' p. 34). 



