23 NOVEMBER 1912, Page 18

PARTRIDGES IN TREES.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.”] your review of Mr. Bennett's " Those United States," in your issue of November 16th, it is Written : " On page 5 Mr. Bennett seems to accept the belief of the sportsman he quotes that partridges sit in trees." I have shot dozens of prairie-chickens roosting in trees in the cold weather in our western country. Indeed, so benumbed were they that it was work for the rifle, not for the shot-gun. I have shot only half-a-dozen times in Scotland, but on one occasion there I have seen one or two partridges in a tree.—I am, Sir, &c.,