I quickly bagged two couple and my first Francolin partridge, and was just in time, before dark, to assist the dinner.
It is quite a different variety to the mottle-breasted species that I have met with in Mauritius, Ceylon, and the double-spur francolin that I have shot in Africa.
I generally found the francolin in the low scrub, although I have often shot it either in the cultivated fields or in the wild prickly low plants upon the open ground which have been misnamed heather.
As I made my way through the thick bushes Merry presently opened upon a scent, and Wise running in among the rocks, flushed a fine francolin partridge, which I shot.
Then he said to his women, "Verily, there hath betided me from you that which befel the Francolin and the Tortoises.
Now they were then abroad foraging for food, and when they returned from their feeding places to their dwelling, they found the Francolin there.
At this the Francolin was grieved and cutting off all his hopes of life said to them, "The fault is not yours, but mine own fault, in that I hearkened to you and plucked out my wing-feathers wherewith I used to fly.
Men tell this tale of The Francolin and the Tortoises.
FN#128] Now this voice was the francolin which bore witness against him.
Grantii); the less harsh and more pleasing call of the plain francolin (F.
There is the harsh and defiant scream of the bush francolin (F.
But I saw yonder francolin and bethought myself thereanent of an extraordinary thing; and it was on this wise.
Now this[FN#155] was the francolin that bore witness against him.
The runaway slave, whom you brand, is only a spotted francolinwith us.
Partridges by any name would taste as sweet, and when you have learnt that the francolin is one of the few different kinds of partridge, you will have obtained the chief clue to the life-history of these birds.
One sort of francolin is still to be met with in the countries of Europe that border on the Mediterranean.
And on this plain there is a kind of bird called francolin, but different from thefrancolin of other countries, for their colour is a mixture of black and white, and the feet and beak are vermilion colour.
Unfortunately, in Europe the Francolin is tending towards extinction, for its wild nature prevents it accommodating itself to a restricted range.
A beautiful variety ofFrancolin is found in the South of China.
Their flesh is highly esteemed, the Francolin taking the first place among our game birds.
That evening we had a delicious dinner of francolin partridges.
While they were gone, I took a few men to beat the low jungle within the forest for francolin partridge, numbers of which I had seen running through the covert.
I shot two small antelopes, also some guinea-fowl, francolin partridge, and five pelicans.
As the fleet now slowly sailed against the strong, current of the Bahr Giraffe, I walked along the hank with Lieutenant Baker, and shot ten of the large francolin partridge, which in this dry season were very numerous.
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