Birds of America Volume 1 (Plate 76)

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Plate LXXVI

Virginian Partridge
Drawn by Nature and Published by John J. Audubon
Engraved, Printed & Coloured by R. Havell

When an enemy is perceived they immediately utter a lisping note, frequently repeated, and run off with their tail spread, their crest erected, and their wings drooping, towards the shelter of some thicket or the top of a fallen tree.

This species occurs far up the Missouri; and is extremely abundant in Texas, where it principally keeps on the prairies. In the Floridas I found it all over the pine barrens; but none were seen on any of the Keys. In Texas, the Floridas, and as far eastward as the neighbourhood of Charleston, in South Carolina, it breeds twice in the year, first in May, and again in September.

– John J. Audubon


 

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