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VIRGINIAN PARTRIDGE. 
Perdix Virginiana, LatHaM. JENYNS. 
Perdir—A Partridge. Virginana—Of Virginia. 
THE species before us has been introduced into this country 
from America, where it is indigenous in both continents. Mon- 
tagu mentions that several had been turned out in different 
parts of the British Empire, and he speaks of one shot near 
Mansfield, in Nottinghamshire. In Norfolk, some were turned 
out by Mr. Coke, (Lord Leicester,) near Holkham, and some 
of their descendants are believed still to exist; a nest with 
several eggs was found at Barton, in that county. Several 
have been killed in the county of Surrey; others were intro- 
duced at Teddesly, in Staffordshire, by Edward John Littleton, 
Esq., of that estate; one was shot at Rotherfield, near Tun- 
bridge Wells, Kent, a female, about the first of January, 
1850; another, a male about the same time and place; and 
one near Chelsham Court, Godstone, Surrey, in the middle 
of October, 1845: it was supposed to be one of a number 
procured from America, which had been turned out near Wind- 
sor by His Royal Highness Prince Albert. 
In Ireland, General Gabbit liberated many on his estates, 
but it is said that in two years the breed was lost. 
In their native country they are migratory. 
The Virginian Partridge.can be kept in confinement, and 
has been known to breed in that state. They are taken in 
large numbers for the tavle, being very much esteemed, and 
are captured in various ways. They frequent the neigh- 
bourhood of woods, but rarely the woods or forests themselves, 
and conceal themselves among bushes, brushwood, and herbage, 
from which they emerge to feed in the open fields; they 
verch at times in low trees. In severe weather they come 
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