CHAPTER VI. 



THE PARTRIDGE. PERDIX VIRGINIANUS. 



" How beautiful they look ! with outstretched tails, 

 With heads immovable and eyes fast fixed, 

 One foreleg raised and bent, the other firm, 

 Advancing forward, presses on the ground." 



)HIS beautiful bird, so well known and 

 eagerly sought after by all the sports- 

 men of our country, is found in consider- 

 able abundance in almost every State of 

 the Union, extending from the extreme 

 parts of Canada even to the southernmost 

 banks of the Rio Grande. The inhabit- 

 ants of the Northern States call it quail ; 



in the Middle or Southern States it is more familiarly known as 



the partridge, or Virginia partridge. 



The habits and natural history of the American partridge 



having already been so amply descanted upon by many able 



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