THE FRENCH, OR RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE.
This is dressed precisely like our common partridge, and is excellent eating if it be well kept; otherwise it is tough and devoid of 291flavour. It does not, we believe, abound commonly in England, its hostility to the gray partridge, which it drives always from its neighbourhood, rendering it an undesirable occupant of a preserve. It was at one time, however, plentiful in Suffolk,[94] and in one or two of the adjoining counties, but great efforts, we have understood, have been made to exterminate it.
94. Brought there by the late Marquis of Hertford, to his Sudbourne estate.