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Oakland, Oregon. W. E. Bryant. Seen in breeding 

 season. 



Calaveras County foothills, altitude 1,000 feet, June 

 7, 1885. Jas. Brice. A flock of young about the size of a 

 chicken just from the egg; I think they could not fly; 

 the first I have seen on. my route this year. 



Mr. Brice travelled daily from Murphy's to Milton in 

 the hills where this quail is more than abundant, and as 

 I had passed over it a few days before without seeing 

 any I requested him to report the first young, which he 

 did as above. L. B. 



Poway. F. E. Blaisdell. First young seen May 5, 

 1884. They bred very abundantly until late in August. 

 The last set of fresh eggs were taken August 14, 1884. 

 I think it was unusually late for them to lay. I also 

 noticed some small quails about November 1. 



6. Callipepla gambeli (Nuttall). GAMBEL'S PARTRIDGE. 



Agua Caliente, San Diego Co. F. Stephens. In the 

 Colorado desert, March 25 to 28, several seen, one shot. 



March 18 to April 15, 1886. Not so common as C. c. 

 vallicola in the same locality. Are inclined to keep 

 further in the desert. 



In San Bernardino County, along the line of the 

 Southern Pacific Railroad, L. californicus and L. gambeli 

 come together; here hybrids occur. (Henshaw, Auk., 

 July, 1885, referring to specimens shot near San 

 Gorgonia Pass, by R. B. Herroii. 



Cooper, 1885. Their range toward the north is not 

 known to be above 36. At Fort Mojave they are numer- 

 ous and have all the calls of the coast species except the 

 alarm chirp like a robin's which I never heard them 

 utter. There is however a slight difference in their 

 notes, which is recognizable by strangers. 



Heermann. I first discovered this beautiful species on 



