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for gopher meat, persistently hunted his favorite 
game and brought the spoils of the chase to 
the prisoner. Had he been her own kitten, she 
could not have been more solicitous of his 
comfort.—Southern Medicine and Surgery. 
COCK PARTRIDGES AS FOSTER- 
PARENTS. 
Each recurring season witnesses an increase 
in the practice of employing unmated cock 
partridges to adopt and rear broods without 
reference to how the chicks are hatched or to 
the absence of a female bird. It has always 
been recognized that the cock partridge is one 
of the best parents going among game or other 
birds, but it is only within the last few years 
that his real value as a foster-parent has been 
brought out. Cock birds can be penned up for 
the purpose beforehand, or Hungarian, etc., 
birds secured. Once the cock partridge is 
brought into contact with a brood, he will com¬ 
mence to mother them and prove as expert at 
the business as the best of hen birds. 
The eggs may be hatched out in incubators 
or under ordinary foster-hens. In the former 
case the chicks must be well dried off before 
being given to the cock bird. Suitable coops 
to confine the latter must be employed, and a 
sufficient supply of runs provided. These runs 
should be about a square yard in area and fit 
the coops. The sides must be of wood about 
a foot high, and it is best to cover them in 
with bird-proof wire-netting fixed on a frame¬ 
work so as to form a lid or door to the run. 
As soon as the chicks are ready they are placed 
in the run, the cock partridge being in the coop. 
It will not be very long before he has drawn the 
brood into the coop with him, and as soon as 
the chicks and foster-parent are on terms with 
one another he may be allowed in the run and 
some suitable food given. If the coops are in 
position in the fields where the birds are to be 
liberated this can be done within an hour or 
two, otherwise it is better to transfer them in 
the evening and liberate next morning. 
In the case when the clutches of partridge eggs 
are hatched under foster-hens, it is necessary 
to leave the hen to dry them off and place her 
and the brood in a coop. Attach a suitable 
double-ended run to this, and place the cock 
partridge in another coop at the other end. He 
will soon entice the chicks away from the 
foster-hen and brood them, when the latter can 
be removed and arrangements made to liberate 
the foster parent and his brood according to 
circumstances as named in our preceding para¬ 
graph. Cock partridges thus utilized show 
themselves very amenable to the conditions im¬ 
posed upon them, and if penned up and regularly 
visited a week or so before-hand exhibit very 
little fearsomeness or shyness.—Shooting 
Times. 
CURIOUS ACCIDENT TO A GULL. 
Two bicyclists who were proceeding along a 
lonely road between Dunrossness and Sum- 
burgh, in Shetland, had their attention drawn 
to a dead bird which was suspended from a 
telegraph wire by means of a stout cord. Upon 
closer inspection it was found that the bird in 
question was a black-headed gull. As it was 
dangling about 10 feet from the ground some 
difficulty was experienced in releasing it from 
the wire, but when this had been effected further 
examination disclosed the fact that it had met 
its death in a most unusual manner. At one 
end of the line was a fish hook, and this was 
firmly fixed to the interior of the upper mand¬ 
ible. It is therefore surmised that the line 
formed part of a fisherman’s gear, and the 
hook, having probably been baited with some 
tempting lure, was seized by the bird. In its 
efforts to free itself it had apparently succeeded 
in breaking the cord. It would then seem to 
have flown from the open sea overland, carry¬ 
ing with it in its flight some 12 feet to 15 feet 
of line. The further extremity of the cord must 
subsequently have come into contact with the 
telegraph wire, with the fatal results above 
mentioned.—The Field. 
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