RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE. 
GUERNSEY PARTRIDGE. FRENCH PARTRIDGE. 
Perdix rufa, MontaGu. FLEMING, 
Tetrao rufus, BEWICK. 
Perdic—A Partridge. Rujfx. Rufus- Red. 
Turs handsome species is a native of various parts of the 
south of Hurope, being plentiful in Germany, France, Portugal, 
Spain, and Italy, and also met with in Austria, Bohemia, and 
Switzerland, likewise in Guernsey and Jersey, and it is said 
1 Madeira. It also occurs plentifully in the north of Africa, 
and in Asia—in Japan. 
Red-legged Partridges were introduced into this country in 
the reign of King Charles the Second in the neighbourhood 
of Windsor, and afterwards more recently by the Duke of 
Northumberland, and the Earl of Rochford; also by the 
Marquis of Herttord at Sudbourn, near Orford, in Suffolk, 
and by Lord Rendlesham, at Rendlesham, in the same neigh- 
bourhood. ‘These have increased, and are now abundant upon 
Dunmingworth Heath, and from Aldborough to Woodbridge, 
from whence they have spread_ over the adjoining counties. 
Some were turned out by the Marquis of Hastings, at Don- 
nington Park, Derbyshire, but a few seasons saw them 
extinguished. The Rev. T. Fowler, in two instances, has known 
these birds found upon the beach in an exhausted state, as 
if after a long flight. They have been met with in Hssex, 
near Colchester. In Yorkshire several are said to have been 
shot near Doncaster. Some have made their appearance in 
Roger Wildrake’s ‘moist county of Lincoln; others near 
Royston, in Hertfordshire; and the species has been met with 
at Upway, near Weymouth, Dorsetshire. 
The Hon. Thomas Littleton Powys has written to me of 
