[47] Audubon, ‘American Ornithology,’ vol. v. pp. 552, 557.
[48] Mowbray on Poultry, 7th edit., p. 133.
[49] Temminck, ‘Hist. Nat. Gén. des Pigeons,’ etc., 1813, tom. iii. pp. 288, 382; ‘Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist.,’ vol. xii., 1843, p. 453. Other species of partridge have occasionally bred; as the red-legged (P. rubra), when kept in a large court in France (see ‘Journal de Physique,’ tom. xxv. p. 294), and in the Zoological Gardens in 1856.
[50] Rev. E. S. Dixon, ‘The Dovecote,’ 1851, pp. 243-252.
[51] Temminck, ‘Hist. Nat. Gén. des Pigeons,’ etc., tom. ii. pp. 456, 458; tom. iii. pp. 2, 13, 47.
[52] Bates, ‘The Naturalist on the Amazons,’ vol. i. p. 193; vol. ii. p. 112.
[53] Temminck, ‘Hist. Nat. Gén.,’ etc., tom. ii. p. 125. For Tetrao urogallus, see L. Lloyd, ‘Field Sports of North of Europe,’ vol. i. pp. 287, 314; and ‘Bull. de la Soc. d’Acclimat.,’ tom. vii., 1860, p. 600. For T. scoticus, Thompson, ‘Nat. Hist. of Ireland,’ vol. ii. 1850, p. 49. For T. cupido, ‘Boston Journal of Nat. Hist.,’ vol. iii. p. 199.
[54] Marcel de Serres, ‘Annales des Sc. Nat.,’ 2nd series, Zoolog., tom. xiii. p. 175.
[55] Dr. Hancock, in ‘Charlesworth’s Mag. of Nat. Hist.,’ vol. ii., 1838, p. 491; R. Hill, ‘A Week at Port Royal,’ p. 8; ‘Guide to the Zoological Gardens,’ by P. L. Sclater, 1859, pp. 11, 12; ‘The Knowsley Menagerie,’ by D. Gray, 1846, pl. xiv.; E. Blyth, ‘Report Asiatic Soc. of Bengal,’ May 1855.
[56] Prof. Newton, in ‘Proc. Zoolog. Soc.,’ 1860, p. 336.