RED-LEGGED 
PARTRIDGE. 
PERDIX RUFA. 
This brightly coloured bird is not held in such general estimation as our English Partridge the disposition 
to make more use of its legs than wings having stirred up the animosity of sportsmen toflbri “ 
In r 7 preference for them myself. During the present month (September 1886) I 
hji\e passed my time in Brighton, and discovered that the maioritv of thp To ^ 4 - ■ i 
£::;£r=£:~ 
onlT tonrTl -M; °T’ T “‘I Bellegged birds 
y 11 mgs the biace, and nearly double the weight of those expensive morsels This snp<dp l • 
oTco™L'‘partrL“o.'’°““ “““ ^->-="-son than 
I have only met with this species in Sussex, Norfolk, and Camhrido-e • in narts of tlm twp fi f 
about five’aml t« f ’ ^ during the terms spent at the University 
habits and movemlL^T thf'E d f Tp "f', >'=‘™ “»<le observations on the 
arrive on *1 . , ‘'“= B»<>-Bssed Partridges on the Norfolk coast are of opinion that tbev 
the passaeeT 'h ' 1" Continent, after havin» made 
sir h ;"°r/ «- fact that these birds are frerntt 
fli"hts and nr-n £ ' ”““y =“'<= "'eary and worn out by prolong 
the coast ul (l ^ ““<> Tillages near 
Eavino often aTth^^-‘T ““ self-preservation, 
flpmr “round ol or ‘"at are met with in considerable numbers 
aprimr. One m„™ ! i "• ll* “land are also aifected by a desire to make a move in 
«ater“ or ail f ° ^ ^ P“bed up several floating dead on the surface of the 
aa<l a few raf were“ c“““' ™ ““ Heigham Sounds, 
believe 7t to 1 and recrossing from one side of the pool to the other L-e shot i 
an uttei impossibility tor a Eed-legged or any other Partridge to cross the North Sea 
