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colour, but makes no nest properly so called: incubation 

 lasts for three weeks, and the young run about as soon 

 as they are out of the shell, at which time they feed 

 entirely on insects, principally though on ants and their 

 cocoons or "eggs". When adult they consume a good 

 deal of grain and green food. 



It can be reared in confinement if the eggs are placed 

 in charge of a Bantam, which is a better plan than hatch- 

 ing them in an incubator, and the young can be reared 

 on ants' eggs, crissel and hard boiled egg chopped fine, 

 vegetables and seed being gradually added to the dietary. 



The Red-legged Partridge. 



This bird is an importation from the continent, and, like 

 a good many other things coming to us from the same 

 quarter, has become a nuisance in the localities where it is 

 established, but it, too, can be tamed and is then very 

 attractive. 



It is a decidedly handsome bird, very pugnacious, and 

 poor eating ; it has moreover displaced the Common Brown 

 Partridge in some parts, and sportsmen are so irate with the 

 quarrelsome and useless foreigner that many of them 

 denounce it as "vermin" and would exterminate it from its 

 new-found home if they could. But it is prolific, hardy and 

 cunning and defies all efforts that have its extermination 

 from its adopted country for object. 



THE PEEWIT. See Lapwing (under Plovers). 



THE PEREGRINE FALCON. See under Hawks. 



