The Badminton Magazine 1896-10: Vol 3 Iss 15 (1896)
Longman, Green & Co · leaf 85
out two-thirds that of an English partridge. By September the young broods, usually numbering from sixteen to twenty birds, are hatched, and one often hears them scuttling in the dry thickets by the roadside, or occasionally even startles them into the air like a cloud of grasshoppers on their tiny… … 4 4 shooting. There is as yet no particle of scent, and quail-shooting without scent would be a vain hope indeed. But by November some sharp night frosts, following, perhaps, on heavy rains, have killed the last lush rankness of summer, and turned the landscape into
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