black partridge
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Noun
black partridge (plural black partridges)
- A small partridge of Southeast Asia (Melanoperdix niger).
- 1892, Ram Bramha Sanyal, A Hand-book of the Management of Animals in Captivity in Lower Bengal:
- The black partridge is very noisy during the spring, which corresponds with its breeding season, and calls loud and incessantly in the morning, at midday, and sometimes even at night; the painted partridge has a pleasant chirping note; the chukar is another noisy bird; its call-note is fully described by Hume.
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