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LOPHORTYX GAMBELI, Nuttall. 

 Gambel's Partridge. 



Loplwrlyx gambeli, " NUTTALL " apud GAMBEL, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila., i, 1843, 

 260. BD., Birds N. A., 1858, G45. KENNERLY, P. R. R. Rep., Whipple's 

 Route, 1859, 33. BD., TJ. S. & Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, Birds, 

 23. 1(7., P. R. R. Rep., Parke's Route, 1859, 19. HENRY, Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Pbila., 1859, 108 (New Mexico). COUES, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 1866, 94 (Fort Whipple, Ariz.). Topliortyx (sic) gambeiii BD., Ives' Col. 

 Exped., 1867-08, pt. iv, 6. COUES, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1808, 84. 

 COOPER, Birds Cal., i, 1870, 553. COUES, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 236. 

 YARROW, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1871, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 30. YARROW 

 & HENSHAW, Rep. Oru. Specs., 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 27. HEN- 

 SHAW, Rep. Orn.^Specs., 1873, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 142. BD., BREW., & 

 RIDG., N. A. Birds, iii, 1874, 482, pi. 64, figs. 4, 5. COUES, Birds Northwest, 

 1874, 432. 



Callipfpla gamlelii, BD., Stans. Rep. Exp. Great Salt Lake, 1852, 326. WOODH., Sit- 

 greave's Exp. Zu5i & Col. Riv., 1854, 95. HEERM., P. R. R. Rep., x, pt. ii, 

 1859, 60. 



This beautiful species, which is different from the California Quail, 

 although called such in Utah, was first met with early in October at Har- 

 mony, Southern Utah, in large numbers, where it is resident all the year. 

 The young, two-thirds grown, were taken at this place October 9. This 

 locality would appear to be about its northern breeding limit ; but informa- 

 tion was received of the occasional appearance of these birds at Cedar City, 

 some thirty miles to the northward. 



From Harmony southward, it was found even more abundantly, fre- 

 quenting the grain-fields and vineyards about the towns, where coveys of 

 even one hundred were not infrequent. 



Being rarely disturbed, it is quite tame, and, unless closely pursued, 

 seldom takes wing, preferring to trust to its speed of foot. At Harmony, 

 many coveys habitually roosted in the heavy brush along the banks of the 

 small streams, which are conducted through the fields, resorting thither at 

 early dusk and departing about sunrise for the rocky hills. For rocky 

 ground, it shows great preference, and when flushed near such places inva- 

 riably betakes itself thither for concealment. 



Met with by Dr. C. Gr. Newberry, a few miles south of Santa F6. It here, 

 however, is not nearly so abundant as to the southward, in Arizona and New 



