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NESTS AND BOOS OF 



CHESTNUT-BELLIED SCALED PARTRIDGE. Callipepta squamata 

 (Brewst.) Geog. Dist. Eastern Mexico and Lower Rio Grande of 

 Texas. 



This bird is like the last, but the general coloring is deeper and richer. Tut 

 bird appears to inhabit the low lands along the lower Rio Grande Valley, while 

 C. squamnta inhabits the table lands of Northwestern Mexico, Western Texas, New 

 Mexico and Arizona. Mr. George H. Ragsdale, of Gainesville, Texas, kindly sent 

 me four eggs of this bird for inspection; these have a ground color varying from 

 white to a buff with the surface marked with minute specks of reddish brown. In 

 a specimen having a white ground the markings have a purplish tint. The shape of 

 the eggs is characteristic of all eggs of the Partridge. The sizes of the four speci- 

 mens are, 1.17x.94, 1.13x.92, 1.15x.94, 1.16x93. In the collection of the late Capt. B. F. 

 Goes there is a set of ten eggs of this Partridge taken May 14, 1886, in Western 

 Texas. They are dull white, speckled all over with fine dots of different shades of 

 brown. Some of the eggs have a few small brown spots on them more than a six- 

 teenth of an inch in diameter; they resemble the eggs of the Scaled Partridge, but 

 are more thinly speckled and much lighter in color. Sizes, 1.25x.99, 1.17x1.00, 1.24x 

 1.06, 1.26x1.05, 1.26x.99, 1.24x1.05, 1.25x.99, 1.27x1.00, 1.27x.99, 1.28x1.00. The nest 

 from which these eggs were taken was on the ground and made of leaves and dry 

 grass 



294. CALIFORNIA PARTRIDGE. Callipepla ralifnniirn (Shaw.) Geog. 

 Dist. Coast region of California south to Monterey. Introduced in Oregon. Wash- 

 ington and British Columbia. 



AM CALIFORNIA PARTRIDGE on HKLMKT QUAIL (From Brehm). 



