![[Picture: Partridges.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/White-Selborne/pages/018-Partridges/../../tn/018-Partridges-q75-500x474.jpg "[Picture: Partridges.]")
Download
Buy print-size file for commercial or other use
| 500x474 | 66K | jpg free download |
| 119x113 | 4K | jpg free download |
| 211x200 | 10K | jpg free download |
| 734x695 | 161K | jpg free download |
| 978x926 | 283K | jpg free download |
| 1304x1235 | 450K | jpg free download |
Buy print-size file for commercial or other use
| 500x474 | 66K | jpg free download |
| 119x113 | 4K | jpg free download |
| 211x200 | 10K | jpg free download |
| 734x695 | 161K | jpg free download |
| 978x926 | 283K | jpg free download |
| 1304x1235 | 450K | jpg free download |
“Partridges in vast plenty are bred in good seasons on the verge of this forest [the forest of Wolmer, mostly in the parish of Selborne], into which they love to make excursions; and in particular, in the dry summers of 1740 and 1741, and some years after, they swarmed to such a degree that parties of unreasonable sportsmen killed twenty and sometimes thirty brace in a day.” (pp 17, 18)
A partridge was once a traditional bird to eat roasted at Christmas, or so one might conclude from the famous song, A partridge in a pear tree.
I made a partridge wallpaper version of this engraving, too.
