DCHP-3

Hungarian (partridge)

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a European partridge, Perdix perdix, introduced from Europe, many of the original birds coming from Hungary.

See: Hun

Quotations

1925
Rooney sent me four Hungarians picked up dead on the railway track near Blackfalds {Alta].
1955
Ever since 1909, when the Hungarian partridge was first introduced--to spread in spectacular increase across central and southern Alberta--the population has risen and fallen in the same mysterious pattern that affects others of our northern game-birds.
1965
Hundreds of thousands of pheasants and Hungarian partridges have been lost.