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red-legged partridge
noun
- a partridge, Alectoris rufa , having a reddish tail, red legs and bill, and flanks barred with chestnut, black, and white: common on farmlands and heaths in SW Europe, including Britain
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If by chance he has knocked down a red-legged partridge, (grey ones are very scarce in France,) his exultation knows no bounds.
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It is not at all probable that the red-legged partridge will ever drive out our own bird, a contingency which some have feared.
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We could see also prodigious numbers of the ghatta or red-legged partridge flying northward or settling on the edge of the desert.
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All that it needs to learn is how to perch in a tree, an art which the red-legged partridge possesses.
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Quail and red-legged partridge were also to be found near the camp.
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