
LOM SBARETA GANT 9 
‘and feratches the. citeae for: tia for ae. 
and forgrain, 9 0 " gut. 
‘When a dog has foiind a cbeceny} sed oe 
it earneftly, the old cock Partridge has been {een 
to turn again beating with his wings,.as though 
it owere his intention ‘to.attack,the-dog ;  fome- 
times too he will counterfeit lamenefs, and 1 limp, 
and trail his wings juft before the. dog or the 
fowler, in order to. miflead thems. [ass 
‘The female always flies in another dactiim 
and: when fhe is got to fome diftance, runs back 
filently along the furrow, and affembles Ker young, 
which were lying full, {quat wpon the ground, 
among the grafs and leaves. She foon colleés 
them soBathbr, and feads them very ‘filently toa 
great diftance, before the fowler and the dog, 
who have been iin the male bird, canre- 
turn. Teale i sig’ 
There are more male than femal le Battle css 
on this account methods have beén attempted: of 
taking only the feemingly. .unneceflary males, . 
One method is to-ufe a-hen Partridge.as,a decoy 
bird; the males will come at her call- into the 
fraps that are fet for them, and it is faid. that they 
are drawn fo powerfully by her cry, as to fly even 
upon the roofs of houles, or the fhoulders of the 
fowler... 
ith 
Gone. 
