A Partridge and Quail Feathursday
Partridges and Quails are both galliform birds in the superfamily Phasianoidea. Here are wood-engraved illustrations and a chromolithograph of four of them from Animate Creation by the English natural history popularizer J. G. Wood (1827-1889), published in New York in three volumes by Selmar Hess in 1885.
Grey Partridge (Perdix perdix) -- the chromolithograph.
Red-legged Partridge (Alectoris rufa -- identified hers as Caccabis rubra)
Common Quail (Coturnix coturnix)
California Quail (Callipepla californica -- identified here as Lophortyx californica)
The wood engravings are after illustrations by the German wildlife artist Robert Kretschmer (1812-1872) and the chromolith is by the noted Boston lithographing firm L. Prang & Company.
Our copy of Animate Creation is a revised edition, adapted to American zoology by the American physician and zoologist Joseph B. Holder, of an earlier British publication by Wood first published in London by George Routledge as The Illustrated Natural History in 1853.
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