Fig. 2. MALE BOB-WHITE (C. V. virginianus) INCUBATING 



puts it after thus capturing more birds 

 than ten families could use "but now we 

 gave up the sport on account of the loud 

 bursts of laughter from the negroes, who 

 could no longer refrain." (Vol. V., p. 98). 

 American sportsmen need not be surprised 

 at this narrative; for it was Audubon who 

 was so fond of shooting scores of the beautiful 

 white egret (the plume-hunters' victim) during 

 the breeding season, when they had both 

 eggs and young, so he could gratify the de- 

 mands of the ladies of Charleston for "many 

 of their primary feathers for the purpose of 

 making fans." (Vol. VI., p 135). 



Quails of the genus Callipepla are very 

 different looking birds as compared with any 

 of the bob-whites, a fact that can very 

 readily be appreciated by comparing Figures 

 1 and 3 of the present Part. Indeed, these 

 scaled quails, as they are called, look more 

 like some little species of grouse than they 

 do like a bob-white. Notice in my photo- 

 graph the beautiful crest the bird has, and 

 the fine emarginations of the feathers of the 

 underparts, causing them to resemble scales 

 and suggesting the name for the members 

 of this genus. These scaled quails are birds 

 that habitually live in the desert regions 

 of the West, and later on I will give the 

 life histories of the two subspecies found 

 in certain localities of the southwestern 



part of the country, where they are well 

 known to the sportsmen of those parts where 

 they occur. 



"Valley quails" are of the genus Lophortyx, 

 and they stand among the most beautiful 

 of the smaller game birds of the Pacific 

 region, where they are still to be found in 

 many localities. Unfortunately, they are 

 now rapidly being exterminated, and, unless 

 they are fully protected for a series of years, 

 they will entirely disappear. Think of one 

 of the most elegant game birds in the world 

 actually being wiped off the earth entirely 

 through man's agency; and when once gone, 

 it can never be restored again. Further 

 on I shall present reproductions of photo- 

 graphs of some superb specimens of this genus 

 from life, together with a full account of the 

 members of the genus. This also applies to 

 the mountain and plumed quails of the genus 

 Oreortyx, of which, as wejinow, there are some 

 beautiful varieties or subspecies in western 

 Oregon and the Californias. 



Lastly, I shall give a brief history of those 

 gorgeous little quails of the genus Cyrtonyx, 

 found in certain parts of Texas, New Mexico 

 and adjacent regions. In my own opinion, 

 these stand among the most beautiful of 

 our quails, yet this fact is not often men- 

 tioned, and apparently for the sole reason 



