THE PARTRIDGE AND QUAIL. 



The Partridge is another game bird, and, like most 

 birds to whom protection is afforded, one of common 

 occurrence. We must not, however, seek him on the 

 barren moor — there our search would be but poorly re- 

 warded ; nor must we look for him in the woods, for 

 probably not a glimpse of him should we get. But on 

 the smiling fields he nestles close amongst the herbage. 

 Where the rich stubbles and clover fields abound, 

 bordered with low and tangled hedgerows, he finds a 

 home suitable to his terrestrial habits ; for be it known 

 the Partridge, although his feet differ not in their 

 anatomy from the Pheasant, is a bird never known to 

 perch in trees : on the ground he lives exclusively, roost- 

 ing upon it, and obtaining his sustenance and rearing 

 his young upon it likewise. 



