ii4 FROM SPRING TO FALL. 



way, pull trigger on them and do not attempt to 

 follow, or even mark a covey of this sort, as that 

 would only end in loss of time and probable 

 vexation. 



With the general public the partridge is a favourite, 

 because when his cheery voice is heard as he runs 

 over ridge and furrow, it is a sign that winter is past 

 and brighter days are coming. 



It would be difficult at any time, when walking in 

 roads bordered on either side by fields, to miss seeing 

 partridges, the fields and meadow-lands being in fact 

 their abiding-places, where they feed by day and jug 

 at night. 



The bird lives in pleasant fields, wide and open, 

 where the corn waves and bends, or where the large 

 cool green leaves of mangels, swedes, and turnips 

 give him shelter, while he finds his food-supply on 

 or under their leaves, or about their roots. 



The nest of the partridge is made on the ground. 

 It consists of a slight hollow scraped out of the soil, 

 and with a few grass straws or other vegetation 

 placed in it. The eggs, of from ten to twelve, or 

 perhaps even so many as fifteen in number, are of a 

 pale greenish brown. 



