will serve their turn, and sometimes none at 

 all. The places they most delight in are 

 corn-fields, especially whilst the corn grows, 

 for under that covert they shelter, engender, 

 and breed ; neither are these places un- 

 frequented by them when the corn is cut 

 down, by reason of the grain they find there- 

 in, especially wheat-stubble, and they delight 

 in the height thereof, it being to them a co- 

 vert or shelter. Now when the wheat-stub- 

 ble is much trodden by men or beasts, then 

 they take themselves to the barley-stubble, 

 provided it he fresh and untrodden ; and 

 they will in the furrows amongst the clods, 

 brambles, and long grass, hide both them- 

 selves and covies which are sometimes twen- 

 ty in number. After the winter season is 

 come, and the stubble-fields plowed up, or 

 over soiled with cattle, then do the par- 

 tridges resort to the upland meadows, and 

 lodge in the dead grass or fog under the 

 hedges, amongst mole-hills, or under the 

 roots of trees ; sometimes they repair to 

 copses and under-woods, especially if any 



