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THE PLUMED PARTRIDGES. 11g 
mantie, and breast s/ate-grey ; rest of upper-parts mostly olive- 
brown ; throat and fore-neck deep chestnut margined by a 
white band ; a black patch on the cheek ; belly chestnut, shad- 
ing into pale buff; flanks barred with chestnut, white, and 
biaek:- Total length, 9°6 inches ; wing, 5°2 ; tail, 3°3 ; tarsus; 
1°4; middle toe and claw, 1°6. 
Adult Female.— Differs as a rule in having the o/tve-brown con- 
tinued up the back of the neck to the crest, but in some examples 
the upper mantle is more or less washed with grey. 
Range.—Western States of North America ; extending north- 
wards to Washington Territory, southwards through California 
to Cape St. Lucas, and westward to Eastern Nevada. 
Habits.— Mr. Charles A. Allen, writing to Captain Bendire, 
says :—‘“‘I find this Partridge all through the Sierras. In the 
spring many go up to the snow-line, returning in the fall below 
the point of snowfall. These vertical migrations are performed 
entirely on foot, unless streams must be crossed, when they take 
to their wings, but alight at once on gaining the opposite side, 
and continue their travels on foot.” 
Captain Bendire writes :—“ The mating season begins in the 
latter part of March and the beginning of April, according to 
latitude and altitude. The call-note of the male is a clear 
whistle, like ‘ whu-ié-whu-ié,’ usually uttered from an old stump, 
the top of a rock, ora bush. When alarmed, a note like ‘ quit- 
quit’ is used. In the higher mountains but a single brood is 
raised ; but in the lower foot-hills they rear two broods occa- 
sionally, the male caring for the first one while the female is 
busy hatching the second. 
‘‘T met with a brood of young birds, perhaps a week or ten 
days old, near Jacksonville, Oregon, on June 17, 1883. The 
male, in whose charge they were, performed the usual tactics 
of feigning lameness, and tried his very best to draw my atten- 
tion away from the young, uttering meantime a shrill sound 
resembling ‘ quaih-quaih,’ and showed a great deal of distress, 
