7 DECEMBER 1912, Page 36

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—For many years I

had in my possession the head of a partridge which was sent me by a former coachman of my father's (my ally in the shooting and fishing expeditions of my youth), with the message that he thought I should like to have it as a cariosity. He had shot it while it was perching on one of the topmost branches of a tall Wellingtonia. He was in service at the time near Buntingford, in Hertfordshire.

—I am, Sir, &c., W. A. NEWMAN Upper Hardres Rectory, Canterbury.

[We cannot continue this correspondence.—Eo. Spectator.]