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Shooting for the Chukars was very stiff
Till once the birds were flushed.
They sailed across a ravine to the
other side, it was a type of
or so then ran out of shells and I
had unexpected Delbart no idea
if the ammunition was deep down
in my rifle boxes. The Chukars
give a rapid fire clicking call
plane while their name is
choked. They are beautiful birds,
about the size of a sniped grouse.
The [illegible] of brown & red &
hair are blend most delicately to
the black bars in the wing coverts
give a remarkable contrast to the
dark colors. We saw hundreds of
them both at one time in a water
but also many flocks of
bearded partridges. The latter about
the size of a bob white fly more
rapidly than the chukars & get up
with a metallic whistling which
is not startling. They are not such
rock lovers as the Chukars but
we found them high ups on the
grassy slopes of the mts. &
often both this species were flushed
from the same place, but the
two were mixed.