CHAPTER XII. 



Tlie Common Partridge. — Scandinavian and Northern. — Their Habits and 

 Sufferings. — ^Ciirious Incubation. — The Partridge-Pipe. — Sportsmen's 

 Expedients. — The Klafve. — Training the Pointer. — Partridge-Shooting. 

 —Daring of the Goshawk.— The Tirass.— The Hog-Nat.— The Ryssja. 

 — Stock Bii'ds. — A Chui-ch-goer. 



^T^HERE were a few of the Common Partridge {B(q)p- 

 -*- liona, Sw. ; Itaphdne, Norw. ; Agerhune, Dan. ; Per- 

 dix cinerea, Briss.) in tlie vicinity of Ronnum. This is 

 also the ease throughout all the more cultivated dis- 

 tricts of Southern and Central Sweden; bu.t higher up 

 in that country than lat. 62° they do not seem to be found. 

 In Norway, Professor Rasch states that they are pretty 

 generally distributed, though somewhat scarce everywhere, 

 owing to the destruction that takes place amongst them 

 on the occurrence of " snow winters." "Of late years," 

 he adds, " they have spread over the open parts of the 

 province of Trondhjem, lat. 63°, which may be considered 

 tlieir northern limits." Throughout Denmark, according 

 to Kjajrbolling, these birds are quite common. 



The Partridge is not indigenous to the Peninsula, but 



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