“He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.”

“It offered them some shelter against the storms of sleet that drove at intervals across the moor, while it afforded a covert from which, though mounted, they could reconnoitre unseen, for two miles in every direction.”

“He whirred from his seat like a surprised partridge beaten from a covert.”

“Males are mostly green with red sides to the body and red underwing coverts, with some blue in the wings and tail.”