80 RESORTS OF PARTRIDGES. 



If, by their dunging and scraping, you perceive that 

 they frequent any place, you may then make use of 

 such hedgerows as are directed to take fowl with lines 

 and birdlime ; only plant your running lines from them, 

 of a convenient height, and still place one to lie flat to 

 entangle their legs. 



RESORTS OF PARTRIDGES. 



PARTRIDGES, being naturally cowardly, fearful, simple 

 birds, are easily deceived or beguiled with any device 

 whatever, by train-bait, engine, call, stale, or other 

 enticements. 



The places they delight in most are corn-fields, espe- 

 cially while the corn grows, for under that cover they 

 shelter themselves and breed. Neither are those places 

 unfrequented by them when the corn is cut down, in 

 consequence of the grain they find, especially wheat 

 stubbles, the height of which they delight in, as it serves 

 to shelter them. When the wheat-stubble is much trod- 

 den, they betake themselves to the barley-stubble, pro- 

 vided it be fresh and untrodden ; and they will hide 

 both themselves and coveys in the furrows, amongst the 

 clods, brambles, and long grass. 



After the winter season is come, and the stubble- 

 fields are ploughed up, then they resort to the upland 

 meadows, and lodge in the dead grass, or under hedges, 

 amongst mole-hills, or under the roots of trees. Some- 



