GAME BIRDS AND WILD FOWL. 



CHAPTER I. 



" All nature's difference keeps all nature's peace." POPE. 



The Partridge Game of the Farm Certain Agricultural 

 Improvements injurious to the Partridge and adverse to 

 the Sportsman Common Partridge scarcely ever known 

 to breed in Captivity Easily domesticated Anecdote 

 A Friend to the Farmer Has many Enemies, Quadruped 

 and Biped Destructive mode of Netting The Quail 

 Its Capture in France, Sicily, Malta, &c. Identical 

 with the Bird of Scripture Red-legged Partridge and 

 Common Partridge Affinity and consequent Hostility 

 Examples among Birds and Quadrupeds. 



AMONG our native game birds there is not one 

 more essentially fera natura than the common 

 partridge (perdix cinerea), and yet there is none 

 whose increase and welfare have been so di- 

 rectly favoured by the improvements in modern 

 agriculture. The inaccessible peaks of the highest 

 mountains are the resort of the ptarmigan ; the 



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