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PART from its value as a game-bird, the 
A Partridge must be ranked, on the whole, as 
among our feathered friends. It is mischievous, at times, 
no doubt, and is apt to cause a good deal of damage 
in the corn-fields. But, on the other hand, it devours 
immense quantities of destructive insects, and, more espec- 
ially, of the grubs of the Turnip Saw-fly. 
This is an insect whose powers of mischief are simply 
astounding. In certain seasons it makes its appearance in 
such extraordinary numbers that whole fields are stripped 
as Cleanly of every green leaf as though a swarm of locusts 
had passed over it. Nothing is left but the bare skeletons of 
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