﻿PARTRIDGE. 



They breed with us, and the major part migrate fouth in autumn', 

 the reft only fhift their quarters, as they have been met with on 

 the coafts of EJfex, and in Hawfjhire, in the winter-feafon, retiring 

 there in October*. 



It feeds like the 'Partridge, and like that bird makes no neft, 

 except a few dry leaves or ftalks fcraped together may be called 

 fo, and fometimes an hollow on the bare ground fuffices. In this 

 the female lays her eggs o the number of fix or feven -f-, of a 

 whitiih colour, marked with irregular ruft-coloured fpots : the 

 young follow the mother as foon as hatched, like young Par- 

 tridges. They have but one brood in a year. 



Thefe birds are eafily drawn within reach of a net, by a call 

 imitating the voice, which is not unlike the words whit, whzf, 

 whit. Other ufes of them are made in China than for mere 

 food j the one, for fighting, as we do Game Cocks ; another, for 

 warming the hands in the winter-feafon ; but for this laft purpofe 

 they ufe other forts as well as this fpecies J. 



24. La grande Caille, Brif. orn. i. p. 251. A. 



Var. -A. Le Chrokiel, ou grande Caille de Pologne, Buf. oif. ii. p. 476. 



Discriptiok. ' I *HIS differs merely in being of a larger fize, and is found 

 in Poland. Alfo a Quail totally white is mentioned by 



Arijiotle ||. 



* Br. Zool. — A £>uail was ftiot at Eritb, in Kent, by one of my brothers, in 

 January 178 1. 



f Sometimes as far as twelve, but this is uncommon. — Br. Zool. 



\ Both thefe circumitances we fee frequently in Cbineje paintings, and not 

 unfrequently in the common paper-hangings from that country. 



H Hi/, des oif. ii. p. 476, 



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