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their wing’ when they rife; if they are futprifed 
upon rocks or mountains, they endeavour inftant- 
ly to fly down the precipices; and if they are’ 
purfued there, they attempt to regain the funmmit. 
On plains they fly ftrait forwards, and if they are 
followed clofely they take fhelter fometimes in 
rabbit holes, fometimes in woods, and even savnonee 
upon trees, 
Tt is: very difficult to rear them ina suicide 
flate : they require’ more care than young Phea- 
fants, and, languifhing for their liberty, often 
pine and. die, efpecially when the feathers begia 
to grow upon their heads. Yet in the ifland of 
Scio in the Archipelago, there are numerous 
‘flocks that are fo far tamed, that they will come 
when they are called; they go out in the morning 
into the fields to.feed, and one perfon has the. care 
of feveral flocks; he brings them back at night, 
and they come when they are whiitledto. 
Me. Buffon faw'a man in Provence, which is in 
‘<ukak of France, who had a flock. They 
«ame: when he called them ; ‘he took. fome in his — 
hand, warmed them inhis bofom, and then ioe 
‘them away to their companions.. 
~Burbequius, when he was in Turkey, bas a 
nis of thefe Partridges; they were fo trou 
tblefome to him in ftanding at his feet, and pick- 
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