PARTRIDGES AND QUAILS: Family Perdicidae 



The eggs are laid in April and May. Patterson reported numerous dates 

 from the Rogue River Valley between April 16 and June 8. On the 

 Klamath side of the Cascades he took eggs from May 2. to 2.0. 



Mountain Quail: 



Oreortyx picta palmeri Oberholser 



DESCRIPTION. "Adult male: Crest black; upper parts deep olive brown, usually to crest, 

 top of head bluish gray, stripes on sides of back buffy or yellowish brown, throat and 

 flanks deep chestnut, flanks broadly banded with black and white; breast plain bluish 

 slate. Adult female: crest usually shorter. Young: crest blackish, barred at end with 

 pale brown, breast gray, marked with triangular spots, throat and belly whitish; 

 upper parts grayish brown, specked with white. " (Bailey) Downy young: Much like 

 next species. Si%e: "Length 10.50-11.50, wing 5.15-5.40." (Bailey) Nest: A 

 shallow depression, lined with grass, dead leaves, pine needles, and other vegetable 

 matter; well concealed. Eggs: 8 to 11, pale cream to buff (Plate 35). 

 DISTRIBUTION. General: Humid coast strip from southwestern Washington to Mon- 

 terey County, California. In Oregon: Permanent resident of coast counties and in 

 Willamette Valley, including west slope of Cascades at least as far south as Eugene. 

 (See Figure 6.) 



THE MOUNTAIN QUAIL of Oregon are divided into two subspecies this 

 one, which is the resident bird of the coastal slope of Curry and Coos 

 Counties and of the balance of the coast area north to the Columbia, 

 including the birds found in the Willamette Valley and on the west slope 

 of the Cascades north of Eugene, and the next form, to which belong 

 the birds of the Rogue River Valley east of the coastal range and all of 

 the specimens we have examined from eastern Oregon. We have not 

 seen any birds from the Umpqua Valley and therefore cannot say to 

 which form they belong. 



Douglas (182.9) first recorded the Mountain Quail from the Oregon 



FIGURE 6. Distribution of two forms of quail in Oregon: 

 picta); i, Mountain Quail (0. p. palmer f). 



:, Plumed Quail (Oreortyx. picta 



