GAME BIRDS 
An attempt to introduce a species of red-Iegg-ed partridge 
into Singapore met with failure but this venture is responsible 
for the talcs one still hears of partridges having been shot in 
former years in the Tanglin district. Owing to the abundance 
of small carnivores in Singapore it is extremely doubtful if any 
such acclimatization experiment could succeed, 
A second species of qnail-like bird, the hemipode or bustard- 
quail, is also common in Singapore and woiild by some be 
included among the game-birds but we prefer to follow those 
authorities who regard it as sufficiently distinct, on account 
of important structural peculiarities, to be placed in a separate 
Order, the Turnutfomies. 
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