Definition of "patridge"

[…] but as one hauing a great deale moꝛe ſkill to retriue the patridge with his ſpaniels, then to hunt after ſuch a ſtraūge pꝛay, he ſought, but was little the better […]

1592, “The Hiſtorie of Doraſtus and Fawnia”, in Robert Greene, Pandoſto the Triumph of Time […] ‎, London: [R. Field for] I. B[roome], page E

What is called the Quail in New-England, is denominated Patridge in the ſouthern ſtates, where the true Patridge is not to be found.

1789, “United States”, in Jedidiah Morſe, The American Geography, or A View of the Preſent Situation of the United States of America […] ‎, Elizabeth Town: Shepard Kollock, page 60

For some time now, they'd heard how easy it was to shoot northern “pa'tridge.” (Piles of birds ... dumb as a stone ... shoot 'em from the truck window with a .22.)

2005, “Treed”, in Sam Lucy, Holding Ground: Game Birds, Gun Dogs, Friends, and the Land in Between‎, Down East Books, page 54