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ration thro 9 moft of the Summer Months. This 
Management is alfo of great Service to young 
Partridges, who can hence, without Difficulty, 
fcrape away the Earth and gratify their Hunger* 
A Covey that invited my Attendance laft Seafon 
gave me an Opportunity of viewing the Delight 
they take in this Kind of Food. Upon my turn- 
ing up a Colony, and withdrawing to feme Di- 
ftance, the affe&ionate Parents which frequented 
the Place led their young Offspring to the Hill, 
and lived in the midft of Plenty. After a few 
Days, they grew more bold, and would venture 
to feed within Twelve or Fourteen Yards of me, 
TheGrafs was high, by which means they wou'd, 
on the leaft Moleffation, run out of Sight, and 
conceal their Young. The fuitablenefs of fuch 
Food to Partridges may be alfo found from thofg 
bred under a Hen, which, if conftantly fupplied 
with proper * Ant-hills and frefh Water, feldom 
fail of arriving to Maturity. Such a Concurrence 
of Circumftances feems evidently to illuff rate, that 
one Ufe of Ant-Colonies is to fuftain the above- 
mentioned, and perhaps other Species of Birds 
* Sir Edward King , recommends at Intervals a 
Mixture of Millipedes and Earwigs, which prevents 
their furfeiting on one.luxurious Diet. LoixtJf s Abridge 
9/Phil. EranfaSi. Vol. II. p, 7 and 9. 
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