. The American sportsman : containing hints to sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of game birds and wild fowl of America . covey when rising will furnish a much better shot. Dogs should not be too severely rated for making false points,as the best dogs will do it at times; those that back him, of coursemust be entirely exonerated. Dogs possessing the very nicestnoses are occasionally at fault, and will overrun and flush singlebirds, more especially in hot, dry weather, and should not be treatedtoo harshly for such mishaps. Much advantage is gained by themode of approaching your dogs
. The American sportsman : containing hints to sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of game birds and wild fowl of America . covey when rising will furnish a much better shot. Dogs should not be too severely rated for making false points,as the best dogs will do it at times; those that back him, of coursemust be entirely exonerated. Dogs possessing the very nicestnoses are occasionally at fault, and will overrun and flush singlebirds, more especially in hot, dry weather, and should not be treatedtoo harshly for such mishaps. Much advantage is gained by themode of approaching your dogs when they have come upon acovey; and every shooter should be able to judge of the positionof the birds by the actions of the dog. English dogs, we are satisfied, from personal observation,—in fact,from actual experiment, for we have imported several,—cannot atfirst find our partridges with the same facility with which our dogsdo; and we might go further, and say there never was an importeddog over the age of two years that ever acquired the art of findingthe American partridge equal to our own breed of pointers r- ^ 170 lewiss AMERICAN SPORTSMAN. MEMORANDA. 1. Partridges are not migratory birds, although great numbersshow a disposition to shift their quarters at the running season. 2. The American partridge is not a quail, either in habits,appearance, or the flavor of its flesh 3. Partridges commence pairing in March; period of incubation,three weeks. The young are capable of locomotion as soon asfreed from the shell, and are able to fly in three or four weeks. 4. Not susceptible of domestication to any great extent. 5. Partridges are granivorous, and said to be very partial tobuckwheat. 6. It is not uncommon for them to produce two broods in oneseason. 7. Young birds have soft bills, and the legs yellowish or bluish,and lack the cunning of the old birds. 8. The English bird is much larger than the American variety. 9. It is of no use to follow running birds, a
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