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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ...and black; the male has a deep chestnut crescent-shaped spot on the breast. II. Food and Habits.--To be told or questioned out as the knowledge and experience of the children may require. The partridge is seldom found far from cultivated ground; it feeds on grain and other seeds, insects, and their grubs, especially those of the ant. The nest is usually on the ground among the brushwood and long grass, or in fields of clover or corn, and generally contains from fourteen to twenty eggs. Both parents show a strong attachment to their young and great courage in defending them from assailants; they will also have recourse to stratagem to draw off the attention of the ( 208 ) 0 enemy to their brood. Mr. Marwick relates the following instance of this habit:--"As I was hunting with a young pointer the dog ran on a brood of very small partridges; the old bird cried, fluttered, and ran tumbling along, just before the dog's nose till she had drawn him to a considerable distance, when she took wing and flew still further off, but not out of the field; on this the dog returned to me near the place where the young ones lay concealed in the grass, which the old bird no sooner perceived than she flew back again to us, settled just before the dog's nose again, and rolling and tumbling about, drew off his attention from her young, and thus preserved her brood a second time." The flight of the partridge is strong and rapid for a short distance, but it is not able to sustain its flight for any length of time. Until the end of autumn the parent birds and their broods keep together in a covey; late in the season several coveys unite and form what is called a pack. In England there are two species of partridges, the common and the red-legged; the...
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