AMERICAN ORTYX. 
Ill 
and holding the place in the new world which the 
partridges do in the old, frequenting the borders 
of woods, roosting and occasionally perching on trees. 
Colonel Montague notices a specimen of the Virgi- 
nian Ortyx shot near Mansfield, and some time 
previous to that, states, that some had been turned 
out. Staffordshire, Cambridge, and Norfolk, are also 
mentioned as localities where they have been tried, 
but we have been unable to trace exactly what has 
been the success of the trials. 
