The real pheasant is never sold in American markets. The bird known as
such at the South is called a partridge at the North, and is, properly
speaking, the ruffled grouse. The Northern quail is the English and
Southern partridge. The wild fowls brought by the hundred dozen from
the Far West to Eastern cities, and generally styled prairie-fowls, are
a species of grouse. The mode of cooking all these is substantially the
same.