BOBWHITES, QUAILS 



grass, or beside a log or under a fallen tree 

 top. It is made of leaves and fine grass. 

 The eggs are from eight to fifteen in number, 

 creamy white and unspotted. When sur- 

 prised in the woods with their brood of half- 

 grown young the old birds will dash into the 

 underbrush with wild duckings while the 

 young will hide in the grass until the danger is 

 over. One can almost pick them up before 

 they will scamper away. The young birds 

 are very pretty in their brown streaked 

 plumage and short erect crests as they go run- 

 ning ahead of one in single file, weaving back 

 and forth as they watch for some opening 

 into which they can dart to safety. 



California quail, Lophortyx califor- 

 nica californica. 9.50 



Distribution: Resident along the Pacific 

 Coast from middle California north to the 

 Columbia River, and sparingly northward 

 west of the Cascades in Washington (except 

 in the region of Seattle where it is abundant 

 in the reserve about Lake Washington). 

 The valley quail, a closely related form, is 

 found in the more arid interior districts of 

 Oregon and California and south to Lower 

 California. 



The California quail, California partridge, 

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