The partridge in the song is thought by some to ... Colly is a regional English expression for the color black and is derived from the word coal. So this gift is of four black birds, not four ...

Even so, you will probably never see a partridge in a pear tree. How could that be? After all, the repetitive first line of the “The 12 Days of Christmas” carol references a beloved receiving ...

Gray partridge, which are also known as Hungarian ... “We were just stunned at the color of the bird,” Franks said in a phone interview. In 60 years of hunting, Franks said, he’d never ...