BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE 
mated with a common cock and brought up thirteen young 
ones in the result*, is highly improbable." 
[Eggs of the Red-legged Partridge (Cacca6t5 rufa (Linnaeus)) 
sent to Capenoch from Norfolk in 1906 took twenty-four 
days to hatch under a fowl, and a covey of twelve birds 
was reared. These were most unfortunately all shot except 
one, which, however, stayed on the beat all the winter and 
the 'following spring, before disappearing. The species is 
only here included, to record the fact that the attempted 
introduction of 1906 thus failed.] 
[An adult male of the Chukar Partridge (C. chukar (Gray)) 
shot by me at Bierholm (Keir) on January 20th, 1894, must 
undoubtedly have been an " escape."] 
THE QUAIL. Coturnix communis, Bonnaterre. 
Local name — Weet-ma-feet. 
A very irregular summer-visitor, formerly more regular if not annual in 
its visits. 
The only local reference to this species in the Statistical 
Account of Scotland, is from Kirkmichael, 1791, where it is 
included in a hst of birds of that parish.f From the way in 
which the species is mentioned by WiUiam Bennet in his 
Traits of Scottish Life and Pictures of Scenes and Character, 
the Quail would appear to have been a common bird in Glen- 
cairnj about 1830. Sir WiUiam Jardine, writing of the 
birds of the parish of Applegarth and Sibbaldbie in 1832, 
says that the Quail " is occasionaUy met with in September 
and October at the time of migration. In 1819 they bred 
* Dumfries Courier y July 23rd, 1822. 
t Stat. Acct. Scot., Vol. I., p. 60. 
X Traits of Scottish Life, 1830, Vol. III., p. 183. 
