. The American sportsman: containing hints to sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of the game birds, and wild fowl of America . doubt,is a veritable Partridge, without any admixture of foreign blood,as some of our sporting friends would have us infer. If this Birdhad not been shot in the section of country where it was, andin company with other ordinary Partridges, we might, perhaps,very naturally have supposed it to belong to another variety;but, all the circumstances taken into consideration, we must re-gard it only as one of those lusus iiaturoe that we occasionallymeet with throug
. The American sportsman: containing hints to sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of the game birds, and wild fowl of America . doubt,is a veritable Partridge, without any admixture of foreign blood,as some of our sporting friends would have us infer. If this Birdhad not been shot in the section of country where it was, andin company with other ordinary Partridges, we might, perhaps,very naturally have supposed it to belong to another variety;but, all the circumstances taken into consideration, we must re-gard it only as one of those lusus iiaturoe that we occasionallymeet with throughout every branch of animated creation. In the specimen before us, the bill is black; line over the eyeand down the neck jet black, with an occasional grayish-whitespot; whole chin ashy white, mottled with black, extendingslightly over the throat, which is jetty black, interspersed witha few reddish-brown spots; upper part of the breast exhibits afew pure white feathers; the lower portion dark-cinnamon orred-brown, fringed with black; sides of the neck reddish-brown;in fact, the balance of the plumage, save the admixture of black. THE PARTRILiGE. 83 and cineritious tints, may be set down as reddish-brown, orrather dark-cinnamon color; legs of same hue; the irides very peculiar Bird was killed in Pennsylvania, a shortdistance from the city, and, what is somewhat remarkable, therewere others of similar plumage in the covey from which thisone was secured. We went in quest of these Birds with , on a subsequent occasion, but were unsuccessful inour search.* THE IMPORTANCE OF STUDYING THE NATURAL HISTORY OF GAME BIRDS. We have already devoted much space, perhaps too much, tothe natural history, habits, and peculiarities of the Partridge,but, we trust, not without benefit to our readers, as no one canexpect to become an accomplished Sportsman without studyingvery closely the individual characteristics of every species ofgame that he pursues. For it is by this kno
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