TETRAONID^-ODONTOPHORIN^: PARTRIDGES OR QUAIL. 593 



a* in the $ ; the breast is oUve-gray. The changes of plumage are parallel with those of L 

 gamheh. Lower portions of CaUfornia and Oregon; E. nearly to the Colorado River: abun- 

 dant. A fine species, entirely distinct from the next, but habits and manners in aU respects 

 the same ; replaces L. gamheli westward. Eggs speckled, as in the next 

 S. LgWbell. (To Wm. Gambel. Fig. 410.) Gambel's Partriooe. Arizona Quail. 

 S: ^^lthout white loral line; forehead black with whitish lines ; occiput chestnut : nuchal and 

 cervical feathers with dark shaft lines, but few dark edgings or none, and no white speckling 

 General color of upper parts clear ash, the edging of the inner quills white. Fore-breast like 

 the back ; other under parts whitish, the middle of the belly with a large jet-black patch • sides 

 rich purplish-chestnut, with sharp white stripes; vent, flanks and crissum white with dusky 

 streaks. Bill black ; iris brown. Besides lacking the definite head-markings, the 9 wants the 

 black abdommal area, where the feathers are whitish with dark lengthwise touches ; crest dark 

 brown, not recurved, and fewer-feathered than that of the cock. Top of head grayish-brown 

 nearly uniform from biU to nape ; throat grayish-white with slight dark penciUing Chicks' 

 in the down: Bill above reddish, nearly white below; feet duU flesh-color. Head dingy 

 yellowish, with a large brown spot on the occiput, a few black, white-streaked feathers on 

 crown, and the crest sprouting in a week or two. Upper parts grayish-brow mottled with 

 black spots, and conspicuously striped with white lines. Outer webs of the sprouting quilla 

 marked with blackish and whitish. Throat white ; other under parts narrowly barred with 

 black and tawny-white, striped lengthwise with pure white. Sprouting tail-feathers like the 

 primaries. PuUets, quarter-grown, 6-7 inches long: Leaden-gray, becoming tawny on the 

 wings, which are stiU a little mottled as above described; below, light gray, nearly white on 

 throat and belly. Breast waved with light and dark gray, with traces of the white stripes 

 Sides under the wings slightly fulvous or rufescent, but without definite stripes. QuiUs plain 

 dusky; tail-feathers more plumbeous, marked with blackish and whitish. A broad white 

 superciliary Hne. With the progress of the faU moult this dress changes for one like that of 

 the adults, and the sexes are soon distinguishable. Eggs 1.25X1.00, pyramidal, narrow and 

 pomted at one end, very obtuse the other; color buff or rich creamy, dotted and spotted aU 

 over with bright brown, splashed here and there with large blotches of the same ; number in 

 definite -8-12 or more. Nest like that of any other partridge. New Mexico and Arizona 

 both m mountams and valleys, very abundant; E. to Pecos and San Elizario, Texas, beyond 

 which replaced by the Massena partridge; W. to Colorado R. and slightly beyond; N. to 

 Utah ; S. into Mexico. The characteristic game bird of Arizona. 



CALLIPEPO^. (Gr.«aXXc,reVXo.,A-«?fo>epZos, beautifully arrayed.) Shell Quail. General 

 character oi Lophortyx, but head with a short, fuU, soft crest as in the Massena quail (fig 413) 

 Coloration of under parts producing a shelly or scaly appearance. Sexes nearly aUke Eggs 

 not heavily colored. One U. S. species. ^^ 



O^rr'T". i/^'*;. '*T"'"' ''^"^"""'' '^"^'^-^^^^^•) Scaled Partridge. Blue 

 Quail. $, adult : General color bluish-plumbeous, shading into olive-brown on the back 

 and wings and to rufous on the under parts behind the wings, with a large abdominal area of 

 orange-brown; the feathers of the neck aU around, and most of those of the under parts, 

 sharply edged with black, producing a peculiar shell-like appearance; on the breast the 

 f.athers also with concealed reddish shaft-Hnes. Long feathers of the sides like the back in 

 n.lor, with white brown-edged stripes or long-oval spots. On the flanks and crissum the 

 tcathers lose the scaly appearance, becoming blended rusty-brown, with linear, sagittate or 

 cordate dark spots. Inner secondaries edged with buff or whitish, affording to the folded wing 

 t le lengthwise stripe so characteristic of N. A. partridges. Quills plain fuscous ; tail-feathers 

 plumbeous No defimte stripes about the head; crest dark brown ending in pure white 

 Length 10.00-1 .00; extent 14.50-15.50; wing 4.50; tail 3.50 ; tarsus 1.25 f middle toe and 

 claw 1.04. 9 little different; head markings the same; the orange-brown of the belly 



