10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COMMON PARTRIDGE»
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1
Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well
and that Greek word continues, four and a half centuries later, to denote saddle of
pork cooked in this manner. 370. PASTICCIO FREDDO DI CACCIAGIONE (
COLD GAME PIE) Let's take, for example, a gray partridge or a common partridge
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2
Class II, Birds, Div. II, Water
As we find, from these citations, that so many different sorts of bird's have learned
to As I suppose, however, thai perdix signifies this last bird, and not the common .
partridge (as it is always translated), it is proper I should here give my reasons ...
3
Sketch-book of British Birds
It is more given to running than our Common Partridge, but when once started its
flight is direct and swift : it is also a very pugnacious bird. The nest is a slight
hollow in the ground under the shelter of some grass or hedge-row. The eggs are
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Richard Bowdler Sharpe,
1898
Of the true Partridges (Perdix) two species are found in Britain ; one of them, the
Common Partridge (Perdix cinerea, Fig. 176), is an undoubted native ; but the
second, the Red-legged or Guernsey Partridge' (Perdix rubra, Fig. 175), although
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William Somerville Orr, Richard Owen, Robert Gordon Latham,
1860
5
The Balance of Nature and Modern Conditions of Cultivation
It inhabits heathy places chiefly, but otherwise closely resembles the common
partridge in its habits. The flesh is of a less succulent and tender character than
that of the common partridge. FIG. 66.—THE COMMON PARTRIDGE. Partridges
are ...
6
A Naturalist's Sketch Book
ТНЕ COMMON PARTRIDGE. QUAIL THE two upper figures in the Plate show the
Quail, our smallest game bird and a summer _ visitant to the British Islands. It is
now much less plentiful than in former times, .which may be attributed to the ...
7
A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory
PERDIX CINERBA. THE GREY PARTRIDGE. COMMON PARTRIDGE. CEARC-
THOMAIN. Tetrao Perdix. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 2/6. Perdix cinerea. Lath. Ind. Orn. II.
645. Common Partridge. Mont. Orn. Diet. Perdrix Grise. Perdix cinerea. Temm.
William Macgillivray,
1837
8
A History of British Birds, Indigenous and Migratory: ...
Syst. Nat. I. 276. Perdix cinerea. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 645. Common Partridge. Mont.
Orn. Diet. Perdrit Grise. Perdix cinerea. Temm. Man. d'Orn. II. 488. Common
Partridge. Perdix cinerea. Selb. Illustr. I. 433. Pcrdix cinerea. Common Partridge.
Jen.
William MacGillivray,
1837
9
Theophrastus of Eresus: Sources on biology
crying cacabis, the common partridge (Perdix cinerea) girrah or ripripri. The
common partridge is now found only in Northern Greece, and it seems natural to
suppose that in Theophrastus' time its range did not extend beyond Corydallus.
Robert W. Sharples, Pamela M. Huby, William Wall Fortenbaugh,
1995
COMMON PARTRIDGE. Perdix cinerea, Lath. PLATE LXI. Perdix cinerea, Lath.
Ind. Ornith. v. 2. p. 645. sp. 9. Tetrao Perdix, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 276. 13 Faun. Suec.
No. 205 Gmel. Syst. L p. 757- sp. 13. Perdix cinerea, Raii Syn. 57- A. 2 — Will.
Prideaux John Selby,
1833