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birds. The general tint of the English bird 
is brown—nut brown—and grey, the male 
being distinguished by a chestnut coloured 
horse-shoe shaped patch on the lower part 
of the breast. The French bird is more 
variously coloured and of a general reddish 
and brighter tint of plumage, and red is also 
the colour of the beak, legs, and toes. The 
male partridge has a knob on the leg where 
the spur is in the domestic fowl, and this 
distinguishes him from the hen, and the 
colours of the latter also are not so bright. If 
a partridge receives a shot in the head it 
may fly on for some distance, but losing 
control apparently of the power of moving 
forwards it mounts rapidly upwards into the 
air and falls down dead. So that (and even 
in any case) if a bird is thought to have been 
hit, it is watched carefully. 
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We got into a narrow, high-banked lane, 
which sloped down to an apple orchard and 
a farm beyond. The lane made a pretty 
picture, Some elms met overhead to form 
