Grey Partridges. 171 



Feudatory States, and of the Tributary 

 Mahals. 



Westwards of India, this bird extends 

 as far as Persia. 



Dr. Jerdon has the following note on 

 the habits of the Grey Partridge : 



" It frequents alike bush-jungle and 

 cultivated lands, being often found in 

 gardens and compounds, and very gene- 

 rally near villages, concealing itself in 

 hedgerows and thickets. It associates in 

 coveys of varied numbers, from five to 

 fifteen, is often very difficult to flush, 

 running for a great distance and with 

 amazing speed, and taking refuge in thick 

 bushes and hedges, whence it is driven with 

 difficulty. When flushed it rises with a 

 loud whirr, flies very strongly, but does 

 not take long flights. It frequently 

 perches on low trees and shrubs and on 

 the branches of thick Euphorbia hedges. 

 Its call is a peculiar loud shrill cry, and 

 has, not inaptly, been compared to the 

 word Pateela-pateela-pateela quickly re- 

 peated, but preceded by a single note 

 uttered two or three times, each time with 

 a higher intonation, till it gets, as it were, 

 the keynote of its call." 



The Grey Partridge appears to nest 

 twice in the year, once from February 



