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Lophortyx Gambelii, Nuttall. 



GAMBEL'S QUAIL. 



Lophorti/x Gamhdil, " Nuttall," Gambel, Pr. A. N. Sc. Phil. I. 1S43, 260. — McCall, Pr. 

 A. N. Sc. V. June, IS.'JI, 221. — Baihd, P. li. Rej). IX. Bii-ds, 64.'j. — Kennerly, X. 

 iv. 3.3. — Co0ES, lliis, 1866, 46 (haliit). In. Pr. A. N. Sc. Phil. 1866, 94. —Dresser, 

 Ibis, 1866, 28. — Calli/H-jjId Giimhclu, Gould, Mon. Odont. pi. xvii. — Cassin, Illust. I. 

 ii. 1833, 45 ; pi. ix. — IIeermanx, P. R. Rep. X. v. 19 ; vi. 60. 



.'^r. Cii.\R. Ht-ad ^vith .1 crost of five or si.K purplish-black fcatliers, about as long as 

 the bill ami head together, or a little longer. Ujiper parts, with the neck all round, and 

 the breast, plumbeous gray ; the shafts of the feathers brown ; those on the neck above and 

 on the sides edged with the same. Anterior half of head all rounil, with the chin and 

 upper piirt of throat, and a hirge spot on the l.)ell_v, lilack ; the forehead streaked witli 

 hoary gray. Top of the head chestnut, bordered anteriorly and laterally by black, inuue- 



diately succeeded by an abruptly defined white stripe. A second stripe starts from the 

 posterior corner of the eye, and borders the black on the sides of the head and on the 

 throat all round. Belly pale brownish-yellow ; the sides of the body dark or.ange-brown, 

 broadly streaked centrally witli white. Inner edges of tertials light brownish-yellow. 

 Tail light plumbeous. 



Female without the black and white of the head and tlie black of the belly, and only a 

 slight trace of the chestnut crown ; the crest shorter and of fewer feathers. 

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