. . •-.;,. QUAIL, GROUSE, ETC. 159 grains of the precious metal which characterizes its home,and that the pigment is imparted to the eggs. After the nesting season these birds commonly gatherin coveys or bevies, usually composed of the membersof but one family. As a rule they are terrestrial, but maytake to trees when flushed. They are game birds par excel-lence, and, says Chapman, trusting to the concealmentafforded by their dull colors, attempt to avoid detection byhiding rather than by flying. The flight is rapid andaccompanied by
. . •-.;,. QUAIL, GROUSE, ETC. 159 grains of the precious metal which characterizes its home,and that the pigment is imparted to the eggs. After the nesting season these birds commonly gatherin coveys or bevies, usually composed of the membersof but one family. As a rule they are terrestrial, but maytake to trees when flushed. They are game birds par excel-lence, and, says Chapman, trusting to the concealmentafforded by their dull colors, attempt to avoid detection byhiding rather than by flying. The flight is rapid andaccompanied by a startling whirr, caused by the quickstrokes of their small, concave, stiff-feathered ^vings. Theyroost on the ground, tail to tail, with heads pointing out-ward, a bunch of closely huddled forms—a living bomb,whose explosion is scarcely less startling than that of dj^na-mite manufacture. The partridge is on all hands admitted to be whollyharmless and at times beneficial to the agriculturist. It isan undoubted fact that it thrives with the highest systemof cultiv
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