Partridge Research
In the region of sport one of the institutions that has been brought to an end is the very interesting research station into the ways of the partridge. The target was of course thus studied chiefly for the sake of the explosive ; but the scientific point of view has prevailed among the chief workers, and the quantity of admirable pamphlets and yet more admirable illustrative photographs have taught us deal more than the best ornithologist ever knew about the ways of one of the most interesting birds in the list. The fidelity of the mating, the self-sacrificing courage of the parents, the long cohesion of the family give outstanding examples of the virtues of bird psychology. I do not know any technical book by a fond observer (not even Bird Behaviour) which tells us so much of the mind of the bird as some of these I.C.I. pamphlets, whose matter has been supplied by a genius in the rearing and understanding of birds.
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