36 NATURAL HISTORY OF THE PARTRIDGE 
The young partridges reared by foster-parents 
become most confiding and animated pets, taking 
their place, if permitted, amongst the various species 
which assemble in the yard of the home farm at 
feeding time. ‘It is far better, however, that the wild 
birds should be secured from accident, and allowed 
to rear their young from the first, leading the chicks 
to the best feeding grounds, and calling them to 
secure any specially dainty morsels that they have 
had the luck to disturb and drive out from their 
hiding-places. The wiles and shifts which partridges 
adopt in order to divert attention from their broods 
are well known to the majority of people, and very 
charming they must be confessed to be. 
