7 DECEMBER 1912, Page 36

PARTRIDGES IN TREES.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—While I was living at Kirkcaldy, Fifeshire, during the early spring of 1911, a pair of partridges were to be seen almost every morning in the park opposite my dressing-room window. One morning while I was watching them, one of the birds left its mate and flew up on to the branch of a. wych elm tree, where it remained for two or three minutes before rejoining its companion. The branch on which it settled was a thick horizontal one, probably ten feet or more above the ground, as it was well above the browse line. Until I saw this happen I, like Mr. Gathorne-Hardy, was under the impression that the common partridge never settled in trees.—I am, Sir,