PERD1C1DJ3 — THE PARTRIDGES — LOPIIORTYX. 



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Lophoityx Califoriiicus, Suaw. 



THE CALIFORNIA QUAIL. 



Teirao Califoniiais, SuAW, Nat. Misc. pi. 34.5 (prior to ISOl ). — Perdix Culifornica, Latham, 

 Suppl. IikI. Orn. II. App. 1801 ; pi. Ixii. — Audubon, Oni. Bioj;-. V. 1830, 152; ]il.413. 

 — HuTCiIiNGS, Cal. Mag. II. 18.i7, 241. (Woodcut of bird and egg.) — Orliji Culijhrnim, 

 SxEFiiiiNS, in Shaw'.s Zool. XI. 1819, 3S4. — Audlbos, Svn. 1839,199. Ib. Birds 

 AmtT. V. 1842, 67; pi. 290. — Lo/ihorti/x Califontka, BoNArAKTE, List, 1838. — Nut- 

 tall, Man. I. 2d ed. 1840, 789. — Baird, p. E. Rep. IX. Birds, 644. — CoopEit and 

 SuCKLEY, XII. iii. Zool. of W. T. 225. — Callipepla Callfornica, Gould, Mon. Udont. 

 pi. xvi. — Newberry, P. R. Rep. VI. iv. 1857, 92. — Heermann, X. vi. 60. 



Sp. Cii.\r. Crest black. Anterior half of boily and upper parts plumbeous ; the wings 

 and back glossed with olive brown. Anterior half of head above brownish-yellow, the 

 shafts of the still' feathers black; behind this is a white transverse band, which passes back 

 along the side of the crown ; within this white, anteriorly and laterally, is a black sufi'u- 

 sion. The vertex and occiijut arc light brown. Chin and throat black, margined laterally 



Male. 



and behind by a white band, beginning behind the eye. Belly pale bufT anteriorlv (an 

 orange-ljrown rounded patch in the niiddk'), and white latcralh', the fl'athcrs all margined 

 abnqitly with lilack. The feathers on the sides of borly, like the back, streaked centrally 

 with white. Feathers of top and sides of neck with the margins and shafts black. Under 

 tad coveits buff, broadly streaked centrally with Ijruwn. 



