Excerpt from Game Birds and Wild Fowl: Their Friends and Their Foes The Partridge - Game of the Farm - Certain Agricul tural Improvements injurious to the Partridge and ad verse to the Sportsman - Common Partridge scarcely ever known to breed in Captivity - Easily domesticated Anecdote - A Friend to the F armer Has many Enemies, Quadruped and Biped - Destructive mode of N etting The Quail - Its Capture in France, Sicily, Malta, &c. Identical with the Bird of Scripture - Red-legged Par tridge and Common Partridge - Affinity and consequent Hostility - Examples among Birds and Quadrupeds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.