PARTRIDGE 187 
registered by game-dealers as imported into Man, but no 
native specimens recorded. In 1903, however, one Manx 
bird appears (at Ramsey) with eight hundred and thirty-five 
‘foreign, and in the autumn of 1904 a Pheasant, according 
to a newspaper report, was seen at Snugborough in Braddan ; 
so that stray birds possibly still survive elsewhere as well 
as at Bishop’s Court. Since writing as above I hear from 
Mr, Allison (January 1905) that there are now some Phea- 
sants in the vicinity of his house at Maughold, which at 
times come into his fields and garden. 
The Pheasant is numerously preserved in the neighbour- 
ing parts of England, Scotland, and Ireland. It has been 
introduced into Orkney, where, however, it did not thrive, 
and at Stornoway and in North Uist, where perhaps some 
still exist. 
PERDIX CINEREA, Latham. PARTRIDGE. 
Manx, *Kiark-rhenee or rheinnee (M. S. D.,Cr., 1 Sam. xxvi. 
20)=Fern Hen; Patrag, Eean-patrag (M.S. D.). (Cf. Se. 
Gaelic and Irish, Cearc Thomazn; Sc. Gaelic, Ceare Chruthach; 
Trish, Pactriasg.) M.S. D. applies Kiark-rhennee also to 
the Woodcock (Scolopax rusticola). 
The statement in Camden (MS, xviii. 14) that Partridges 
though imported will not live in the isle, is one of the 
many errors of that account. Sacheverell (1693) says: 
‘The Earl (¢.e. William, ninth Earl of Derby) has . .. sent 
over Partridge which thrive very well, though my author 
(Chaloner) says his grandfather was not so fortunate in 
his experiment; I suppose the Hawks destroyed them.’ 
(I do not find this statement in Chaloner’s work on Man, 
but it is made in Blundell’s (MS., xxv. 46), from which it 
