. Frank Forester's field sports of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform]. Game and game-birds; Hunting; Gibier; Chasse. UPLAND SHOOTiNO. 219 QUAIL SHOOTING. )i:\ i. 11 WE already, under my list of Upland (Jaiiio, fjivcM a Cull di'sciiption of this lovely little bird from the pajroa of Audu- bon and Wilsdii. Both of these authors lean to the south- ern fasliion of calliii!:; this bird a I'ar- tridj^e. Now the truth of tlic matt(>r is simply this, that the bird in question is jiraperfy and accurately neither one nor the other, but a distinct spceius, pnssossinir
. Frank Forester's field sports of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform]. Game and game-birds; Hunting; Gibier; Chasse. UPLAND SHOOTiNO. 219 QUAIL SHOOTING. )i:\ i. 11 WE already, under my list of Upland (Jaiiio, fjivcM a Cull di'sciiption of this lovely little bird from the pajroa of Audu- bon and Wilsdii. Both of these authors lean to the south- ern fasliion of calliii!:; this bird a I'ar- tridj^e. Now the truth of tlic matt(>r is simply this, that the bird in question is jiraperfy and accurately neither one nor the other, but a distinct spceius, pnssossinir no Kiiirlish name whatever. The oriiithoh)- gical name uf the Partridge is , of the Quail Cohirnix, o\ the American bird, disti'ict from either, Ortyx. The latter nam(! bein<f the Greek word, as Coturnix is the Latin word, meanini; <i<iail. It is, of course, impossible to talk almut kiU- inc^ Orti/JTs, or more correctly Or'i/gcs, we must therefore, l^erforce call these birds cither Quail or Partridire. Now as both tlie European Partridges are considerably more than douI)le the si/e of tlic American bird, as they are never in any country migraton/, and as they diili-r from the Ortyx in not bavinj? the same woodland habits, in cry and in plumage ; while in size, and in beinir a bird of passage, the European Quail exactly resembles that of America; resembling it in all other- respects far more closely than the Partridge proper—I canno for ii moment hesitate in saying that American Quail is the correct and proper English name for the Ortjix Virginiana, and T lonceive that the naturalists who first distinguished him from the Quail with which he was originally classed, sanction this •I I 1 T ,' ill. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Herbert, Henry William, 1807-1858. New York : W
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