Any one of numerous species of small gallinaceous birds of the genus
Perdix and several related genera of the family
Perdicidæ, of the Old World. The partridge is noted as a game bird. [
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" The common European, or gray, partridge (Perdix cinerea) and the red-legged partridge (Caccabis rubra) of Southern Europe and Asia are well-known species."
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"Full many a fat partrich had he in mew."
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