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

Its most common application in India is to the Himalayan red-legged partridge, much resembling on a somewhat larger scale the bird so called in Europe.

From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Yule, Henry

One new bird only has been introduced into England since the pheasant—the red-legged partridge which seems to be fairly established in some districts, not to the entire satisfaction of sportsmen.

From The Life of the Fields by Jefferies, Richard

After she had had Tom several years, a red-legged partridge called Bill, brought from France, was given to her.

From Stories of Animal Sagacity by Weir, Harrison

We saw nothing of the red-legged partridge or the Tetraonidae, reported to be common.

From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir