MASKED BOB WHITE. 
HIS singularly colored Quail is unlike any other 
species inhabiting America north of Mexico. It is 
found in southern Arizona, Sonora, and Mexico, espe- 
cially in the district lying between the gulf coast of 
Sonora and the Barboquivari range, and is abundant 
between the last-named mountains and the Plomoso. 
Mr. Herbert Brown of Tucson, Arizona, was the first 
to obtain this bird within the limits of the United States, 
and he says that it is found on the Sonoita Creek, about 
sixty miles north of the Sonora line, and from the 
Sonoita Valley it ranges in a westerly direction within 
Arizona Territory for a hundred miles through a strip 
of country not thirty miles wide. In a wild state this 
Quail does not appear to be nearly so abundant in the 
country it inhabits (at least on our side of the line), as 
are the other species of quail that are indigenous to our 
soil and inhabitants of the same States. The Masked 
Quail found in Arizona are apparently but an overflow 
across our border from the main body of birds in Sonora. 
They are met with in the valley, on the table-lands, 
and even as high as 6000 feet, two having been killed 
at that elevation in the Huachuca Mountains, in a canon 
about fifteen miles north of the border; but nowhere can 
they be considered abundant. 
Although so totally different in appearance from our 
common Bob White, the Masked Quail has a call note 
which resembles exactly that of the Northern species and, 
while uttering this, it perches on rocks, bushes, or other 
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