10 FRANK SCHLEY'S PARTRIDGE AND I'HEASANT SHOUTING. 



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JVo. 3. Plumed Partridge; Mountain Quail. — Inhabit8 

 naountain-ranges of California and Oregon towards the coast, 

 Nevada, Eastern Slope and foot-hills of the Sierra Nevada. 

 — Bidgway. 



No. 4:. California Partridge ; Valley Quail. — Inhal»its Val- 

 ley portions and foot-hills of the Pacific province of the 

 United States, south to Cape St. Lucas. 



No. 5. Gamble's Partridge; Arizona Quail. — Inhabits Col- 

 orado Valley of the United States, north to Southern Utah, 

 and East to "Western Texas. 



No. 6. Scaled, or Blue Partridge. — Inhabits Table-lands of 

 Mexico and Valley of the Eio Grande of Texas. Most abun- 

 dant on the high broken table-lands and mesquite plains. 



No. 7. Ifassena Partridge. — Inhabits Chiefly on the Up- 

 per Eio Grrande from the high plains of the Pecos, Port 

 Whipple, Arizona, Northern Mexico, southward, on the 

 west coast, to Mazatlan. 



Of these seven species and varieties of beautiful game 

 birds, six of Avhich, the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, 

 and seventh, nowhere exists to the eastward of the Missis- 

 sip])i River, and have never fallen before my gun. These 

 six I shall only notice b}' giving their character and his- 

 tory, which I will produce from the best authors in North 

 American Ornithology. The first Sjiecies, Quail; Partridge; 

 Bob-White, I offer to the sportsmen as the ol)ject of my 

 pursuit, and the special aim of this treatise. This species 

 being found in great abundance in the whole of the Eas- 

 tern Province of North America, and is the well-known 

 game bird of this country. In systematizing this work I 

 shall begin with the Ornithological description of the sec- 

 ond variet}', and continue on with the third, foui'th, fifth, 

 sixth, and seventh. I shall then close this department of 

 my work with giving a full and precise account of the 

 character, history, haunts, habits, flight, food, &c., and the 

 most successful methods I have used in hunting and shoot- 

 ing the first species. 



