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go THE NATURAL HISTORY 
Sometimes they are taken in a net calleda_ 
tune ; they are occafionally driven into it by a 
‘man covered with the fkin of a cow, and dif- 
guifed as much as poffible like that animal. 
The Grey, or common Partridge, is of a gen- 
tle difpofition; each family lives together in a 
covey, or little flock, until breeding time. When 
part of a hatch has not fucceeded, or if a covey 
has been in part deftroyed by birds of prey or 
other accidents, feveral of thefe fmaller families 
will join together, and form a larger company — 
than any fingle family. They delight in corn- 
fields, and feldom take fhelter in the woods un- 
lefs purfued. » 3 
The legs of young Pariridors, at fir are ei 
low, they next become whitith, afterwards brown, 
and in Partridges of three or four years-old black. 
Their age too may in fome meafure be known by 
_ the laft feather in the wings, after the firft moulting - 
itis pointed, the year following it becomes round 
_ ed. Little Partridges feed firft upon ants eges 
~ and little infe&ts ; it is with fome difficulty that 
they are made to eat grain: they feem to prefer . 
lettuce, endive, pimpernel, fowthiftle, groundiel, 
and the points of wheat whilft it is green. 
At the age of three months the red {kin under 
the eyes begins to appear; this is a fickly time 
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