. The American sportsman: containing hints to sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of the game birds, and wild fowl of America . CHAPTER YI THE PARTRIDGE. PERDIX VIRGINIANUS. How beautiful they look! with outstretched hcp-ds immovable and eyes fast fixed,One foreleg raised and bent, the other forward, presses on the ground! This beautiful Bird, so well known and eagerly sought afterby all the Sportsmen of our country, is found in considerableabundance in almost every State of the Union, extending fromthe extreme parts of Canada, even to the southernmost bankso
. The American sportsman: containing hints to sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of the game birds, and wild fowl of America . CHAPTER YI THE PARTRIDGE. PERDIX VIRGINIANUS. How beautiful they look! with outstretched hcp-ds immovable and eyes fast fixed,One foreleg raised and bent, the other forward, presses on the ground! This beautiful Bird, so well known and eagerly sought afterby all the Sportsmen of our country, is found in considerableabundance in almost every State of the Union, extending fromthe extreme parts of Canada, even to the southernmost banksof the Eio Grande. YThe inhabitants of the Northern Statescall it Quail)(, in the Middle or Southern States it is morefamiliarly known as the Partridge, or Virginia Partridge. The habits and natural history of the American Partridgehaving already been so amply descanted upon by many ableOrnithologists who have graced this country by their presence,5 66 lewis AMERICAN SPORTSMAN. and enriched our libraries witli their splendid works, it wouldseem superfluous, if not really hopeless, in us to attempt to addanything further upon a subj
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