GALL1NAE PERDICIDAE ORTYX VIRGIN IANUS. 



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ones being seen, from which fourteen birds were killed in a short time. 

 They were very unsuspicious, and would sometimes run along the ground 

 before me like a domestic fowl; but, after being once flushed and thoroughly 

 frightened, they would lie so close in the scant cover that it was almost im- 

 possible to find them." 



The quotation of Cantonment Burgwyn, New Mexico, as above, is the 

 southernmost record of this species. 



FAM. PERDICIDAE: QUAILS. 



ORTYX VIRGINIANUS (Linu.). 

 Quail. 



Tetrao virginianus, LINN., Syst. Nat., i, 1766, 277, 16 (female!). 



Ortyx virginianus, WOODH., Sitgreave's Exp. Zufli & Col. Riv., 1854, 95. BD., Birds 

 N. A., 1858, 640. HAYD., Trans. Am. Phil. Soc., xii, 1862, 173 (Missouri 

 River, not far up). ALLEN, Bui. Mus. Oomp. Zool., 1872, 181 (Eastern and 

 Middle Kansas, spreading westward ; Great Salt Lake Valley, introduced). 

 COUES, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 236. SNOW, Birds Kan., 1872, 12. BD., 

 BREW., &-RIDG., N. A. Birds, iii, 1874, 468, pi. 63, figs. 1, 2. YARROW & 

 HENSHAW, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 27. COUES,. 

 Birds Northwest, 1874, 431. 



To the western extension of this species, the great plains appear to offer 

 a complete barrier ; it not being found anywhere in the region to the west 

 save where it has been introduced. 



A number of pairs of this bird were introduced at Provo, Utah, from the East 

 a few years since, and everything would seem to indicate their rapid increase. 

 In July, the call notes of the males were frequently heard, and a number of 

 coveys were seen here in the fall near the thickets and hedges. They are 

 carefully protected by law ; a heavy fine being imposed for their destruction. 



