102 The Partridge Family 



western Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona to San Bernardino 

 County, California, southern Utah, Nevada, and northwestern 

 Mexico. 



Beautiful, hardy, prolific, were it not for its 

 detestable habit of running, this foppishly garbed 

 varlet would occupy a high place among our 

 upland game. But alas ! like its near relatives, 

 this bird appears to be mainly occupied either in 

 running away from something, or in looking for 

 something to run from. It has an annoying 

 habit of sticking to the thorniest and most im- 

 pregnable cover available, the most rugged of 

 rocks and the steepest of slopes, and through it 

 all it runs — and keeps on running. It can fly 

 swiftly enough when in the humor, but the 

 humor seldom seizes it. Only a Christian of the 

 sternest stripe is fit to be trusted on the trail of 

 this nimble-footed little rascal. In its pursuit, a 

 system of rushing tactics is bound to be the most 

 profitable, and this can be successfully followed 

 only by a man who is strong, wiry, in good con- 

 dition, and thoroughly informed concerning the 

 habits of the game. Such a man very frequently 

 can make a fine bag, and, needless to say, he will 

 earn it. Those who have grown wise in the 

 pursuit of this bird, who have larded the lean 

 earth while rushing the open, charging the cover, 

 and storming the heights, know that if they can 

 get to close quarters with the pattering blue 



