440 ZOOLOGY— BIRDS. 



LOPHORTYX GAMBELI, Nuttall. 

 Ganibel'!<i Partridge. 



Lophoriyx gamhcU,^^'SvTTM.i,^ aptid Gamuel, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., i, 1843, 

 200.— Bd., Birds N. A., 1858, C45.— Kknneely, P. R. R. Rep., Whipple's 

 Route, 1850, 33. — Bd., U. S. & Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, Birds, 

 23.— W., P. R. R. Rep., Parke's Route, 1850, 10.— Henry, Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Soi. Pliila., 1859, 108 (New Mexico).— CouES, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pbila., 

 180(i, 04 (Fort Whipple, Ariz.). Tophorty.r (sic) f/ambelii Bd., Ives' Col. 

 p:xi)ed., 1SC7-C8, i)t. iv, «.— CouES, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila., 18C8, 84.— 

 CooPEE, Birds Cnl., i, 1870, 553.— CoUES, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 2.3C.— 

 Yarrow, Rej). Oru. Specs., 1871, Wheeler's Exjied., 1874, 3G.— Yarrow 

 & 1JEN.SIIAW, Rep. Oru. Specs., 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 27. — IIen- 

 snAW, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1873, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 142. — Bd., Brew., & 

 RiDc;., N. A. Birds, iii, 1874, 482, pi. 04, figs. 4,5. — CouES, Birds Northwest, 

 1874, 432. 



Callipcpla gainbelii, Bd., Stans. Rep. Exp. Great Salt Lake, 1852, 320. — W^oodh., Sit- 

 greave's Exp. Zuui & Col. Riv., 1854, 95. — Heekm., P. R. R. Rep., x, pt. ii, 

 18.59, 00. 



This beautiful species, which is different from the California Quail, 

 although called such in Utah, was first met with early in October at Har- 

 mony, Southern Utah, in large numbers, where it is resident all the year. 

 The young, two-thirds gi'own, were taken at this place October 9. This 

 locality would appear to be about its northern breeding limit ; but informa- 

 tion was received of the occasional appearance of these birds at Cedar City, 

 some thirty miles to the northward. 



From Harmony southward, it was found even more abundantly, fre- 

 quenting the grain-fields and vineyards about the towns, where coveys of 

 even one hundred were not infrequent. 



Being rarely disturbed, it is quite tame, and, unless closely pursued, 

 seldom takes wing, prefeiTing to trust to its speed of foot. At Harmony, 

 many coveys habitually roosted in the heavy brusli along the banks of the 

 small streams, which are conducted through the fields, resorting thitlier at 

 early dusk and de2)arting about sunrise for the rocky liills. For rocky 

 ground, it shows great preference, and when flushed near such places inva- 

 riably betakes itself thither for concealment. 



Met with by Dr. C. G. Newberry, a few miles south of Santa Fl'. It here, 

 however, is not nearly so alnindantas to the southward, in Arizona and New 



