red-legged partridge

British  

noun

1. 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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red-legged partridge

Gordon Linton snapped this red-legged partridge: “I followed this bird as he was eating grit from the road,” he said.

From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2013

In one or two we found a dozen kinds of birds adequately portrayed in colors—the peacock, pheasant, red-legged partridge, stork, etc., being at once recognizable.

From Rambles and Studies in Greece by J. P. Mahaffy

In the mealie fields are francolins in coveys, very like the red-legged partridge in their call, though in plumage nearer to its English brother.

From Sketches of the East Africa Campaign by Robert Valentine Dolbey

In appearance this is very like the French or red-legged partridge, to which it is related.

From Birds of the Indian Hills by Douglas Dewar

A woodcock or red-legged partridge are occasionally seen; but few quadrupeds are met with, and the larger and fiercer kinds are rarely known to occur.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various

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