60 GAME BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA. 
were indignantly warning the trespasser away from their 
premises. This race is fond of frequenting thickets, 
hedge-rows along the cultivated fields, and is naturally 
tame and of a sociable disposition. This trustful nature, 
however, is rapidly changed to one of suspicion and alarm 
after the birds have had a short experience with their great 
enemy man, and when that is the case his appearance is 
announced by a sharp note, resembling pip-pip-pip, 
and the flock is off on a quick run ending, if closely pur- 
sued, in a short flight and a general scattering all over 
the locality. As a game bird, to hunt with a dog, they 
are very unsatisfactory and disappointing, in no way to 
be compared to the brave little Bob White of the Eastern 
States. 
LOPHORTVX CALTFORNICUS. VALLICOLA. 
Geographical Déstribution.—Interior of Oregon, California, 
and Nevada, East to the Panamint Mountains, South to Cape 
St. Lucas. 
Adult Male.—In general appearance this bird resembles the 
California Partridge; the pattern of markings and distribution of 
colors being almost precisely similar, but there is a consistent 
variation in the hues themselves; the color and markings of the 
heads of the two forms are alike, and the crests are the same, 
but the upper parts of the Valley Partridge are grayish brown, and 
the inner margins of tertials are white; the belly is white or 
buffy white, and the flanks grayish brown; it is altogether a 
bluer or more grayish blue bird, and much lighter beneath when 
contrasted with the typical styles; in size it equals the Z. cadz- 
fornicus. 
Adult Female.—Forehead, bluish gray; occiput, rusty brown; 
crest, very short, snuff brown; in the color of the upper parts she 
resembles the male, and the margins of the tertials are buffy 
white ; throat, brownish white, streaked with darker brown, 
breast, bluish gray, flanks, same color, streaked with white; lower 
breast and abdomen, white, the feathers margined with black; 
under tail-coverts, bronzy brown, margined with pale buff or 
