. Hand-book to the birds of Great Britain . Fig. I.—Median wing-covert of male Partridi^e. Figs, 2 & 3.—Medianwing-coverts of female Partridge. tridge we find that the chief difference mentioned as distin-guishing the two sexes is, that the male has a large chestnuthorse-shoe-shaped mark on the lower breast, while in the femalethis marking is reduced to a few chestnut spots, or is some-times entirely absent. This character, as we first pointed out COMMON PARTRIDGE. 285 in the Field/ is not to be depended on, for the greatmajority of young females—by which we mean birds of theyear—have a
. Hand-book to the birds of Great Britain . Fig. I.—Median wing-covert of male Partridi^e. Figs, 2 & 3.—Medianwing-coverts of female Partridge. tridge we find that the chief difference mentioned as distin-guishing the two sexes is, that the male has a large chestnuthorse-shoe-shaped mark on the lower breast, while in the femalethis marking is reduced to a few chestnut spots, or is some-times entirely absent. This character, as we first pointed out COMMON PARTRIDGE. 285 in the Field/ is not to be depended on, for the greatmajority of young females—by which we mean birds of theyear—have a well-developed chestnut horse-shoe, and in some,for instance birds from Leicestershire, it is quite as largeand perfectly developed as in the majority of adult male females from Norfolk and Suffolk are, however, gene-rally exceptions to this rule, and, like the majority of oldfemales, have merely a few chestnut spots on the middle ofthe lower breast, and in this part of England it is rare tomeet with anything like a perfe
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