Show to death partridges and quail will generally when accidentally caught by a high wind close their wings and drop 10 the ground in a lanting slanting s direction only using their wings to check the flight when near the earth they frequently fail to check themselves in time or the dorco of tho wind is greater than they calculated and they are dashed with tremendous force td the earth and are wounded or killed after a recent gale many such dead and wounded birds of the land were found at different points along the atlantic shore |