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PARTRIDGE SHOOTING. 



to France. In Normandy and Picardy they are so 

 little known, that the grey partridge is in infinitely 

 greater abundance. But preferring in all cases a 



THE RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE. 



warm diy soil, these birds Hock pretty plentifully in 

 the sunny vine provinces of France. They are said to 

 like momitainous situations, covered with wood ; and, 

 also, that the partridge spoken of in the Chronicles, 

 " The king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as one 

 would hunt a partridge on the momitains," was the 

 red-legged one. Their mode of perching on trees, 

 which the grey partridge never does, and their ap- 

 pearance in j)rtc/c.s, constitute differences from the 

 latter. This rich-plumaged bird was introduced into 

 England as early as the reign of Charles the Second. 

 English landowners, during the last centuiy, have 



