CHAPTER XII. 



The Common Partridge. Scandinavian and Northern. Their Habits and 

 SuHi'i-ings. Curious Incubation. The Partridge-Pipe. Sportsmen's 

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

 Dating of the Goshawk. The Tirass. The Hog-Nat. The Ryssja. 

 Stock Birds. A Church-goer. 



f I ^IIERE were a few of the Common Partridge (Rapp- 

 -*- hona, Sw. ; Raphone, Norw. ; Ayerhone, Dan. ; Per- 

 dix cincrea, Briss.) in the vicinity of llonnum. This is 

 also the case throughout all the more cultivated dis- 

 tricts of Southern and Central Sweden; but higher up 

 in that country than lat. 62 they do not seem to he 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 Trondhjcm, lat. 63, which may he considered 

 their northern limits." Throughout Denmark, according 

 to Kjserbdlling, these birds are quite common. 



The Partridge is not indigenous to the Peninsula, hut 



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