DCHP-3

wood partridge

North
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a grouse, Canachites canadensis, dark gray barred with black, found in swampy woods.

Quotations

1691
Went a hunting all Returning in the Evening having kill'd nothing but 2 wood partridges & one squirrell.
1743
Wood partridges are not nigh so plenty as those afore mention'd . . . are Very fatt in the fall and good Eating, but in the Depth of winter are hardly worth Killing.
1896
Another, the wood-partridge, has brownish plumage, spotted with white and black.
1949
Traders and clerks ventured into the surrounding country to shoot ptarmigan or wood-partridge.