78 GAME BIEDS OF CALIFORNIA 



Key to California Game Birds — {Contimicd) 



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8'. Lighter; back and tail grayish browu. Mountain Quail 504 



7'. Head with a short, curved, broad-ended plume, less than 1.50 inches 

 (38 mm.) long (fig. 82); flanks without black and white barring; 

 throat black in males (pi. 1). 



9. No scale-like markings on belly; flanks streaked with cinna- 

 mon and white; males with back of head cinnamon 

 colored, and with a black area on middle of belly. 



Desert Quail 538 



9'. Forepart of belly scaled with narrow blackish cross-bars; no 



cinnamon streaks on flanks; males with back of head 



grayish brown, and with a cinnamon colored area on 



middle of belly. 



10. Ground color of upper surface and flanks deep olive brown. 



California Quail 537 

 10'. Ground color of upper surface and flanks grayish brown. 

 11. Smaller; wing averaging less than 4.35 inches (110 mm.) 



long. Mainland species. Valley Quail 514 



11'. Larger; wing averaging more than 4.35 inches (110 mm.) 

 long. On Santa Catalina Island only. 



Catalina Island Quail 537 



PIGEONS AND DOVES 



1. Tail pointed (fig. 89). Western Mourning Dove 588 



1'. Tail square-ended. 



2. Tail crossed by a blackish band near middle but not white at end 

 (fig. 88); total length of bird over 13.00 inches (330 mm). 



Band-tailed Pigeon 575 

 2'. Tail white-ended (fig. 90); wing with a large white patch; total 



length of bird under 13.00 inches (330 mm.). White-winged Dove 603 

 2". Tail without either dark cross band or white, end; total length of 



bird under 7.00 inches (178 mm.). Mexican Ground Dove 006 



