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wood partridge North 
a grouse, Canachites canadensis, dark gray barred with black, found in swampy woods.
See also: spruce partridge
- 1691 (1929) Went a hunting all Returning in the Evening having kill'd nothing but 2 wood partridges & one squirrell.
- 1743 (1949) Wood partridges are not nigh so plenty as those afore mention'd . . . are Very fatt in the fall and good Eating, but in the Depth of winter are hardly worth Killing.
- 1896 Another, the wood-partridge, has brownish plumage, spotted with white and black.
- 1949 Traders and clerks ventured into the surrounding country to shoot ptarmigan or wood-partridge.
- 1691 (1929) Went a hunting all Returning in the Evening having kill'd nothing but 2 wood partridges & one squirrell.