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36 FRANK forester's FIELD SPORTS. 



r:Jlii::' 1. The Common American Quail, Ortyx Virginiana; 



.1 U. i-icO ^- '^^^ Californian Quail, Ortyx Californica; 



,/?i^, .„ ', 3- The Plumed Quail, Ortyx Plumifera ; 



4. The Welcome Quail, Ortyx Neoxena ; 



5. The Painted Quail, Ortyx Picta ; 



6. The Douglass Quail, Ortyx Douglasii. 

 Of these six species the first alone is yet an object of pursuit, 



being found everywhere south of the 43rd degree of north lati- 

 tude, from the waters of the Kennebeck to those of the Rio 

 Grande, if not yet farther to the south. The second, third, 

 fourth, and fifth species are all inhabitants of California, as far 

 north as the valley of the Columbia — the third, or Plumed Quail, 

 being found farther north among the Rocky Mountains ; and the 

 last, named after its discoverer, being a denizen of Lower Califor- 

 nia only, and never straying so far northward as his congeners. 



Still of the third family TetraonidcB, we have in the United 

 States and Canada, a second genus Tetrao, Grouse proper, of 

 which three distinct and well marked species belong to the 

 States, if not four. Two more, in addition to the above, inhabit 

 the British provinces, and thence northward to the Arctic 

 Ocean ; and four others are peculiar to the Rocky Mountains, 

 and the valley of the Columbia. Three of these species are tole- 

 rably plentiful, and two of them I have myself shot, the one being 

 the Ruffed, and the other the Canada Grouse, respectively vul- 

 garised, as the Partridge, and Spruce Partridge. 



Within a few years, there is little doubt that the western spe- 

 cies will be exposed for sale in our markets ; and, should Whit- 

 ney's Oregon Railroad go into effect in our days, who knows but 

 we may live to shoot Cocks of the Plains ourselves, and bring 

 them home the next day to dinner at Delmonico's r 



The ten American species of Grouse are as follows : 



1. The Common Ruffed Grouse, Tetrao Umbellus ; 



2. The Pinnated Grouse — or the Heath-Hen, Tetrao Cupido ; 



3. The Canada Grouse — or Spruce Grouse, 

 densis ; 



4. The Dusky Grouse, Tetrao Obsciirus ; 



