My specimen in evidently an old bird, and in full feather.

A fortnight after I procured this specimen, I obtained a second at Preston, in precisely the same state of plumage, with not a trace of the black mark.

With great diffidence I venture to offer the following suggestion for the consideration of ornithologists.

Seeing that the black mark is not universal in females, may not the birds distin- guished by it possibly be young males, and those not possess- ing it be females ? White Partridge.

In the township of Alston, a few miles from Preston, in the summer of last year, (1837), a covey of partridges was frequently seen, which contained four birds of a perfectly white colour ; the remaining birds in the covey being in the ordinary plumage.