592 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. — GALLINA — ALECTOROPODES. 
outstretched feet not reaching to its end. Bulk of the Bob-white, but longer; 10.00-11.50 ; 
wing 4.00 or more; tail 3.00 or more. Coloration chietly in masses; sexes unlike. @ with 
the chin and throat jet-black, sharply bordered with white ; a white line across the vertex and 
along the sides of the crown, bordered behind by black; Q without these head-markings. 
Eggs colored. Two elegant species in the U. 8. 
Analysis of Species. 
¢ middle of belly orange-chestnut ; sides like back, with white stripes ; hind-head smoky-brown ; fore- 
head chiefly whitish, with white loralline ..°. +. ..... 2... .. =. «6 « . californica bid 
gd middle of belly jet-black ; sides chestnut with white stripes; hind-head chestnut ; fore-head chiefly 
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eo) = 
LF ? 
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Fig. 412. California Helmet Quail, } nat. size. (From Brehm.) 
575. L. californica, (Lat. Californian. Fig. 412.) CALIFORNIAN PARTRIDGE. VALLEY QUAIL 
of the Californians. @: With a small white line from bill to eye ; forehead whitish with black 
lines; occiput smoky-brown ; nuchal and cervical feathers with very dark edging and shatft-lines, 
and fine whitish speckling. General color of upper parts ashy, with strong olive-brown gloss, 
the edging of the inner quills brownish-orange. Fore breast slaty-blue ; other under parts tawny, 
deepening centrally into rich golden-brown or orange-chestnut, all the feathers sharply edged 
with jet-black ; sides olive-ashy like the back, with sharp white stripes; vent, flanks, and 
erissum tawny, with dark stripes. Length 10.00-11.00; wing 4.25; tail 3.75; tarsus 1.25 ; 
middle toe and claw rather more. Besides lacking the definite head-markings, the Q wants 
the rich sienna color of the under parts, which are whitish or tawny with black semicircles 
