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- Partridge's voice borrowed from tortoise. A2241.3
- Why partridge has pretty feet. Exchanged with peacock. (Also told of jay and flamingo.) (Cf. A2241.) A2375.2.1
- Color of partridge. (Cf. A2218, A2219.1.) A2411.2.6.8
- How partridge got voice. Borrowed from tortoise. (Cf. A2241). A2421.4
- Friendship between jackal and partridge. A2493.11.4
- Friendship between partridge, monkey and elephant. A2493.14.5
- Partridge subsists on moonbeams. B768.1
- Revenant as partridge. E423.3.3
- Reincarnation as partridge. E613.8.1
- Witch in form of partridge. G211.4.2
- The full moon and the thirtieth of the month. Prince sends servant to clever girl with a round tart, thirty cakes, and a capon, and asks her if it is full moon and the thirtieth of the month and if the cock has crowed in the evening. She replies that it is not full moon, that it is the fifteenth of the month, and that the capon has gone to the mill; but that the prince should spare the pheasant for the partridge's sake. She thus shows him that the servant has stolen half the tart, half of the cakes, and the capon. H582.1.1
- Jackal realizes that the partridge was too clever for him and leaves. J423.1
- Crow tries to imitate partridge's walk. Only spoils his own. J512.6
- Kite tries to carry off so many partridges that he drops them all. J514.1
- United cocks defeat partridge. When they quarrel they are defeated. J1025
- One man strikes at partridge which has lighted on second man's head. J1833.1.2
- Partridge pretending to be wounded entices woman from food while jackal eats it. K341.5.2
- Partridge plays hide-and-seek with girls while fox eats the curds they are taking to market. K341.26
- Trickster cuts up partridges with his knife. He is given all of them when he tells his companions that he is an executioner. K344.1.3
- Treacherous partridge. K2295.1