A Partridge Maraicher It has always been laid down that
the partridge is a bird belonging to high cultivation. The better the farming, the more numerous . the , partridges, is a very old maxim. A new and unexpected addition to this alleged association has been observed for some years in the Midlands. Grain crops and root crops have been held previously to give the English partridge its optimum of conditions. Nothing has been said about market-garden land ; but there is some reason to believe that the market-garden is especially popular with the French partridge. Very large stocks of partridges are flourishing this year on and about the famous market-garden lands of Bedfordshire ; and the keepers there have noticed that whenever the market-garden land is driven the coveys are ahnost all of the French species, W. BE THOMAS.
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