Partridge

The two species of partridge that are such a familiar sight of the North American countryside—the chubby gray (or Hungarian) partridge, (Perdix perdix) with his orange face and distinctive inverted horseshoe mark on his light gray breast, and the slightly larger, white-faced, red-legged chukar (Alectoris chukar)—were originally strangers to the New World. Their place in the history of shooting and conservation on both sides of the Atlantic, and in the development of the sporting shotgun, is so important that it is worth recording.