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FRENCH PARTRIDGES IN ENGLAND. 
Tuat the French partridge was not rendere: 
extinct in England soon after established wa 
entirely owing to the persistent vitality of th 
bird, and this should long ago have told in it 
favor, for a bird so vigorous is certainly th 
bird to encourage. The British Sporstman ag 
serts that there are estates on which for year 
every red-leg seen was shot, in season and ou 
of season, and each nest met with at onc 
trampled under foot; but still the bird remainec 
and to some extent increased. No form of per 
secution appeared to affect it seriously. Th 
habits of the red-leg in a great measure assiste 
it to survive, for it was not keen to take wing 
when tired would tuck itself into any hole ov 
of sight, and the nests were not easy to finc 
Those upon the ground the keepers might dis 
cover, but eggs deposited in the crowns <¢ 
pollard trees and on ricks escaped notice an 
hatched without interference. It was this whic 
saved the French partridge from destruction. 
We have heard it remarked by sportsmen ¢ 
long experience, says the Sportsman, that th 
red-legged partridge appears more ready tha 
formerly to take wing, but we doubt if its habit 
have altered one jot or tittle, although the cor 
ditions of its surroundings and the manner 1) 
which sport is conducted have changed co1| 
siderably. Dogs were largely used in the ol| 
days, and the birds would simply run ahead an, 
never attempt to rise, for they were not obliges 
to do so. The same thing occurred with a wall 
ing-up party of guns, and the red-legs only ha 
to race in front. Years ago, too, there wi 
more cover on the fields, roots being grown t 
a larger extent, and nearly every stubble bein 
left by the harvesters knee-high. This abunq 
ance of cover aided the tactics of the red-le¢, 
but on the closely shaven fields of to-day it 
fully exposed directly it stirs, and compelled t 
altered circumstances to take wing. Und 
driving methods the coveys are penned betwee} 
guns and drivers, and have no alternative bi 
to fly. 
Now the habits of the French partridge ai 
so thoroughly understood, and sportsmen hay 
learned how to conduct shooting, so that tl 
birds are turned to the best account, the varie! 
is in better odor, and attempts are being mac 
on every hand to encourage its increase. Lars| 
numbers were imported and turned down ear 
this year, and this is a thing which we belies 
has never before been done in the history | 
preservation—at least, since the variety was e 
tablished here. It is doubtful if the ~red-le 
bears a long journey as well as the ordinai 
variety, for we noticed that each consignme)| 
received showed a far heavier proportion 
losses. This is a pity, because we understat| 
the bird to be very abundant on the northei 
shores of Africa, and these vast resources w} 
not be available if the long journey is too mu) 
for it. n 
The one valuable trait of the red-leg is thi 
it is not fastidious regarding soil, which is | 
great fault of our native variety. On son) 
estates a big stock of the brown partridge ci; 
be raised at little expense and with less atte? 
tion; but upon others every effort does n| 
suffice to get up a satisfactory head of the). 
birds. On some soils the brown partridge a} 
solutely refuses to do more than linger. Hoy 
ever, the red-leg is more adaptable, for it thriv; 
as wonderfully on a barren heath as on tik 
finest cultivated land, and appears to fi 
sufficient food where our native variety woul 
starve if it did not desert to a more favorat) 
locality. It was the appearance of the red-l 
in places where none of the English partridg 
were to be seen which led to the belief that t}, 
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New Brunswick a map of that Province, giving the loc) 
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