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BIRDS OF LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND. 
Chukar,” with a suspicion of a creaking gate about it. “ Handsome is, as 
handsome does,” and so this bird’s beautiful plumage does not save him from 
the well-merited anathemas his running and skulking proclivities call down 
upon him, and great is the joy when a covey is taken by surprise and “rights 
and lefts” can be brought to bear upon the “red-legs.” The only time I have 
seen this bird in Leicestershire was during September, 1887, around Saddington 
gorse, where Mr. Macaulay and I, day by day, unsuccessfully stalked a large 
covey of some twenty or more birds, and it was not until the 27th that I got 
a shot and floored a young male, saying, as I held it up, to Mr. Macaulay, “and 
his bick is more red, and his foliage is more bewtiful ” ! 
In Rutland. — Resident, and Mr. Horn wrote that in 1887 they were said to 
be more numerous in the neighbourhood of Uppingham than the ordinary 
Partridge, which is certainly phenomenal if Mr. Horn was not misinformed. 
At any rate I<ord Gainsborough corroborates Mr. Horn so far as to write : — “ It 
appears to be increasing in Rutland.” I saio a covey whilst shooting at Exton 
Park, on 4th Sept., 1887. 
EARBARY PARTRIDGE. Gaccahis 'petrosa (Gmelin). 
In April, 1842, a specimen of this Partridge was picked up dead at Edmond- 
thorpe, near Melton Mowbray (see Yarrell’s ‘ Hist. Brit. Birds,’ 4th ed., vol. iii., p. 
121). The late Mr. Widdowson wrote me that he had this very specimen in his 
possession, and it was from this bird that Yarrell’s figure of the species was taken. 
PARTRIDGE. Perdix cinerea (Latham). 
Resident and common. — The ‘ Leicester Daily Post ’ recorded that just 
after the great storm of the 18th and 19th Jan., 1881, a bricklayer captured 
a Partridge in a hole of the damaged roof of a house in Lower Bond Street, 
Leicester. A still more curious circumstance is recorded by Mr. Davenport, 
who wrote, on 11th Dec., 1885: — “I know of a covey of seven cocks and one 
hen reared this summer under a hen Fowl on Mr. G. V. Braithwaite’s estate 
at Stackley, which now come out of the fields to a whistle, and are so tame as 
to feed out of the hand and perch on the shoulder of the lady of the house.” 
Writing again on 1st Feb., 1886, he said: — “Those Partridges, reduced by one 
cock, come every morning to be fed, just as they did in September — a marvellous 
sight.” The ‘ I.eicester Journal’ of 27th Jan., 1888, contained the following: — 
“ On Tuesday morning a live Partridge was observed on the Humberstone 
Road, near the London and North-Western goods depot, having apparently 
come over the railway from the direction of Evington. It ran oft’ towards 
Brunswick Street, where it was caught by Mr. Andrew Birtles, of Upper Charnwood 
Street, who succeeded in throwing his hat over it. The bird was a fine one, and 
in good condition.” Mr. Birtles informs me, since then, that he kept it alive 
for three months, but, as it was very wild, he had it killed and preserved. 
