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in the fields ; and adorning the woods, and 

 copfes, with their elegant fhape and glofly 

 plumage. 



The partridge is not fo fond of the wild 

 fcenes of the foreft, as the pheafant. She is 

 more the bird of cultivation. Where the 

 plough flourifhes, me thrives j and feldom 

 chufes to inhabit a country in a ftate of nature. 

 The pheafant has no objection to a field of 

 corn ; but he can procure his living without 

 it. He can make a hearty meal of the wild 

 berries of the woods : or content himfelf with 

 a belly-full of acorns. To him therefore corn 

 is a luxury -, to the partridge it is a necefTary. 

 She is generally found gleaning the flubble, 

 or balking under a hedge ; and gets into many 

 a difficulty, which fhe might have avoided by 

 feeding more at large. Sometimes indeed fhe 

 is found in the foreft ; but it is chiefly when 

 fhe is hunted by men and dogs from her more 

 favourite haunts. 



The black-cock, on the other hand, is 

 more a forefter, than even the pheafant. He 



has 



