If by chance he has knocked down a red-legged partridge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844] Reference

Excitable little red-legged French soldiers danced about everywhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference

The red-legged crow occurs here, and a thrush much resembling our English one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference

We also saw a few red-legged partridges, which were not very shy, and some large lizards.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sailor of King George] Reference

Innumerable little red-legged soldiers of the line dance about, gesticulating vehemently.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference

I also saw here a few live pheasants, red-legged partridges and quails in cages, for sale.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Trip to Paris in July and August 1792] Reference

He ignored the gagging sounds behind him to keep his attention on the big red-legged spider.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hour of the Gate]

The red-legged crows I have heard once, but far above, nor do I think that they ever visit this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference

Our little red-legged liners had pushed the Germans across the open space and were pressing them in the wood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873] Reference

We breakfasted upon the Khuraytah crest; and Mr. Clarke set out to shoot the fine red-legged “Greek” partridges.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Midian] Reference

The dry leaves are eaten by the red-legged millipedes during the wet season, accelerating the process of humus production.    From Wordnik.com.  [2. Experiences with Casuarinas] Reference

I knew that our soil produced more soldiers even than France, the fertile mother of red-legged heroes; but I did not expect, in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860] Reference

Wherever one turned, from every direction came the note of the golden oriole and the shrill cry of the hoopoe and the red-legged falcon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wife] Reference

And I frankly don't believe that the garter snake and red-legged frog are in danger of extinction if Sharp Park continues as a golf course.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sharp Park Controversy] Reference

Two of the vicious red-legged variety had crawled into his pants one night and Dillard had got up in a hurry and had neglected to shake out the pants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lonesome Dove]

The unusual commotion commenced with a stampede of sans-culottish boys, and red-legged, wild-eyed girls, who burst into the village streets with shouts of.    From Wordnik.com.  [My New Curate] Reference

The game was very wild round Damascus, but I got a shot at red-legged partridges, wild duck, quail, snipe, and woodcock, and I seldom came home with an empty bag.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton] Reference

The western pond turtle, two-striped garter snake, silvery legless lizard, threatened California red-legged frog, and California horned lizard inhabit these lands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proclamation On The Pinnacles National Monument] Reference

There were the five Oporto wine-merchants — all hearty English gentlemen — gone to their wine-butts, and their red-legged partridges, and their duels at Oporto.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo] Reference

Just this week there was a story about children in Calaveras County in California discovering the celebrated red-legged jumping frog of Mark Twain fame on their ranch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks Prepared for Delivery By The Honorable Gale Norton] Reference

These birds resemble the red-legged variety so common in England, but are considerably larger, while the plumage, although practically identical in colour, is far more brilliant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and sport in China Second Edition] Reference

There are few birds but red-legged crows and common ravens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Himalayan Journals — Complete] Reference

"Just look at the black boy the red-legged stork has brought with him to Leyden.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

Squads of red-legged soldiers are drilling; I suppose some of the new men of the Brooklyn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy] Reference

In appearance this is very like the French or red-legged partridge, to which it is related.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds of the Indian Hills] Reference

Pigeons, red-legged crows, and hawks were the common birds; with a few waders in the marshes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Himalayan Journals — Complete] Reference

Tours has a garrison of five regiments, and the little red-legged soldiers light up the town.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Tour of France] Reference

"Tommy," cried Vixen, seizing the red-legged child, "why do you never come to the Abbey House?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Vixen, Volume II.] Reference

All that it needs to learn is how to perch in a tree, an art which the red-legged partridge possesses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naturalist on the Thames] Reference

Of birds I saw red-legged partridges in great numbers, pigeons, the Katta, but not in such large flocks as I.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Syria and the Holy Land] Reference

After she had had Tom several years, a red-legged partridge called Bill, brought from France, was given to her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of Animal Sagacity] Reference

A few partridges, some of the red-legged variety, and a few snipes, came as a welcome variation of the bill of fare.    From Wordnik.com.  [Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery] Reference

Rene, King of Sicily and Duke of Anjou, who died in 1480, introduced the red-legged partridge into the latter country.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth as Modified by Human Action] Reference

Kate, the other servant, was a red-legged lass, who washed the potatoes, fed the pigs, and ate her food nobody knew when or where.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kellys and the O'Kellys] Reference

He is like a very ancient red-legged macaw, but I suppose he is a dandy among the cardinals, for he wears two stars and two watches.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Volume 1 (of 3)] Reference

We had shot along the cliffs a red-legged chough or two, and one of the real black English rat, exterminated on the mainland by the grey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prose Idylls, New and Old] Reference

Officials formally proposed protecting the California red-legged frog in 1994, but didn't add the species to the protected list until 1996.    From Wordnik.com.  [KansasCity.com: Front Page] Reference