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not uncouimoa in that neighborhood ; its numbers, however, being conspic- 

 uously less than those of the Plumed or Arizona Quail, while at other 

 times it appeared to be absent. It seems an exclusive inhabitant of the 

 waiTQ valleys, and not, like the Massena, a dweller in the high mountainous 

 districts. 



CYRTONYX MASSENA (Lesson). 

 Massena Partridge. 



Ortyx massena, Lesson, Cent. Z06I., 1830, 189. 



Cyrtonyx massena, WooDH., Sitgreave's Exp. Zufli & Col. Riv., 1854, 94. — Bd., U. S. 

 & Mex. Bound. Snrv., ii, pt. ii, 18,59, Birds, 23.— Henry, Proc. Acad. Nat. 

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

 ISGC, 95 (Fort Whipple, Ariz.).— Cooper, Birds Cal., i, 1870, 558.— Coues, 

 Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 239.— Bd., Brew., & Ridg., N. A. Birds, iii. 1874, 492, 

 pi. 04, figs. 3, C— Yarrow, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1871, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 

 3G.— Denshaw, Rei>. Orn. Specs., 1873, Wheeler's Esped., 1874, 143.— 

 CoUES, Birds Nortiiwest, 1874, 443. 



This beautiful partridge is a common resident in the White Mountains 

 near Camp Apache, Ariz., where, in summer, it seems to shun the open 

 valleys, and keeps in the open pine woods, evincing a strong pref- 

 erence for the roughest, rockiest localities, where its stout feet and long, 

 curved, strong claws are admirably adapted to enable it to move with ease. 



August 10, while riding with a party through a tract of pine woods, a 

 brood of eight or ten young, accompanied by the female, was discovered. 

 The young, though but about a week old, rose up almost from between the feet 

 of the foremost mule, and after flying a few yards dropped down, and in a 

 twinkHng were hidden beneath the herbage. At the moment of discovery, 

 the parent bird rose up, and then, tumbhng back helplessly to the ground, 

 imitated so successfully the actions of a wounded and disabled bird that, 

 for a moment, I thought she must have been trodden upon by one of the 



