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most prominent symptoms in these cases were intolerable nau- 

 sea, partial blindness, severe pain in tbe head, difficult breathing, 

 feeble pulse, &c, &;c. Great relief was obtained for these unfor- 

 tunate patients by the free exhibition of mustard and warm 

 water, in quantities sufficient to provoke vigorous vomiting. 



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OLD AND YOUNG BIRDS. 



The bills of young Birds are soft and brown, the legs yel- 

 lowish or bluish-white ; the old Birds have hard black bills, 

 and the legs dark and scaly. The young Birds are somewhat 

 smaller than the old and full-grown ones of the previous season. 

 In some sections of country. Partridges seem to thrive and grow 

 much larger than in other parts. Those shot in the neighbor- 

 hood of the Tapahannock marshes, in the State of Delaware, 

 are generally very heavy and remarkably fine Birds, \_ 



Our particular friend, Geo, D, Wetherill, Esq., a zealous and 

 ardent Sportsman, by the by, informs us that he once shot, in 

 the neighborhood of Mount Holly, New Jersey, ten brace of 

 Birds that averaged eight ounces each. 



THEIR NUMBERS IN DIFFERENT LOCALITIES. 



After a favorable season, Piirtridges are found in abundance 

 throughout the Southern, Middle, and Western States; and if 

 the reports of those who have gunned in the West can be relied 

 on, their numbers in these latter territories must be enormous, 

 quite beyond an}'- idea we have of them in the Atlantic States. 

 We have never yet been so unfortunate as to meet with Par- 

 tridges, on any of our shooting excursions, in such large bodies 

 as necessarily to destroy, by their superabundance, all zest for 

 hunting them ; and we are rejoiced that there is only a com- 

 fortable scarcity in these localities, at all events a scarcity suffi- 

 cient to make us all work hard and exercise a becoming skill 

 in both hunting and shooting our game, which excitement, by 

 the by, constitutes the chief pleasure attending the Sports of 

 the Dog and Gun. 



The mere sallying out in a country overrun Avith Birds, and 

 sauntering lazily about for a few hours, loading and firing with 



