442 ZOOLOGY BIRDS. 



CALLIPEPLA SQUAMATA (Vigors). 

 Scaly Partridge. 



Ortyx squamatus, VIGORS, Zoo'I. Jour., v, 1830, 275. 



Callipepla squamata, BD., Stans. Hep. Exp. Great Salt Lake, 1852, 326. WOODH., 

 Sitgreave's Exp. Zuiii & Col. Riv., 1854, 95. BD., Birds N. A., 1858, 546. 

 BAIRD, r. R. E. Rep., Parke's Route, 1859, 19. BD., U. S. & Mex. Bound. 

 Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, Birds, 23. HENRY, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila,, 1859, 

 108 (New Mexico). COUES, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 186G, 95 (valley of 

 Gila and Colorado). COOPER, Birds Cal., i, 1870, 556. COUES, Key N. A. 

 Birds, 1872, 238. BD., BREW., & RIDG., IS. A. Birds, iii, 1874, 487, pi. 63, 

 f. 6. HENSHAW, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1873, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 142. 

 COUES, Birds Northwest, 1874, 441. 



Camp Grant was the only locality where this quail was seen. A single 

 small covey was met with among the bushes on the dry plain. They ap- 

 peared remarkably unsuspicious, and were very loath to take wing, but, 

 when they did so, flew a long distance, keeping nearly together, and on 

 alighting began to run with remarkable speed, and soon eluded pursuit. 



Description of young. Head above grayish-brown, each feather of crest 

 centrally streaked with white ; prevailing color of back ashy-brown ; terti- 

 aries and interscapular region mottled transversely with rufous and black ; 

 wing coverts centrally streaked and tipped with white ; throat ashy-white ; 

 under parts generally washed with rufous, and banded, most distinctly on 

 sides, with transverse blackish-brown bars ; tail above with indistinct bands, 

 producing the general effect of mottlings of dark brown and white ; bill 

 dark brown above, lighter below ; legs and feet light brown (when dried.) 



During the last season, the observations of our party were almost as 

 meager concerning this quail as they were the year previous ; it being seen 

 only on two occasions. The first, however, was at a point which would 

 appear to be quite out of the usual range of the species, as it is if anything 

 more southern in its habitat than the Massena. A single pair was seen along 

 the road at a point about midway between Santa Fe and Albuquerque, while 

 we came across "no others of the species till well south of the Gila River. 

 From all I could learn by inquiry, this quail is a sparse inhabitant of this 

 section of Arizona ; being, however, quite irregularly dispersed. Thus, at 

 Camp Grant, I was informed by good authority that some seasons it was 



