THE SCALY PARTRIDGES. Ely 
water-courses and the fields adjoining these, associating with 
Gambel’s Partridge. They are easily trapped in the fall and 
Winter, and many are caught by the natives and taken to the 
markets of the larger towns of New Mexico and Arizona.” 
Mr. William Lloyd writes from Marfa, Texas, as follows :— 
“The Blue Quails love a sandy table-land, where they spend 
considerable time in taking sand-baths. have often watched 
them doing so, pecking and chasing each other like a brood of 
young Chickens. Good clear water is a necessity to them. 
They are local, but travel at least three miles for water. In 
the evenings they retire to the smaller ridges or hillocks, and 
their calls are heard on all sides as the scattered covey collects. 
Several times I have seen packs numbering from sixty to 
eighty, but coveys from twenty-five to thirty are much oftener 
noticed.” 
Nest.—Placed on the ground under the shelter of a small 
bush, in corn- and grain-fields, in meadows, potato-fields, or 
almost barren flats. (Bendire.) 
Ez3zs.—Vary from nine to sixteen, but eleven or twelve are 
generally found. Pale creamy-white to pale buff, finely dotted 
or spotted all over with reddish-brown, vinaceous-buff, or fawn- 
colour in different sets, Average mea surement, 1°3 by 1 inch. 
SUBSP. @. THE CHESTNUT-BELLIED SCALY PARTRIDGE, 
CALLIPEPLA CASTANEIVENTER, 
Callipepla sguamata castanogastris, Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. 
Club, viii. p. 34 (1883) ; Bendire, N. Am. B. p. 22, leas 
figs. 6, 7 [eggs] (1892), 
Cullipepla castanetventer, Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. XXIi 
Pp. 396 (1893). 
Adult Male—Differs from the typical C. squamata in having 
the middle of the breast and belly deeper buff or ochreous 3 @ 
dark reddish-chestnut patch on the middle of the belly. 
Adult Female.—The chestnut patch on the middle of the belly 
absent or rudimentary, 
