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Colonel McCall regards this species as less wild and vigi- 

 lant than the California species. It is later in breeding, as 

 coveys of young California Quail were seen, one-fourth 

 grown, June 4, while all the birds of Gambel's were with- 

 out their young as late as June 16. The cry may be imi- 

 tated by slowly pronouncing in a low tone the syllables 

 kaa-wale, kaa-wale. When the day is calm and still, these 

 notes may be heard to a surprising distance. This song is 

 continued, at short intervals, in the evening, for about an 

 hour. Later in the season when a covey is dispersed, the 

 cry for reassembling is said to resemble qua-el qua-el. The 

 voice of this bird at all seasons bears a great resemblance 

 to that of the California Quail, but has no resemblance to 

 that of the eastern Ortyx Virginiana. In their crops wore 

 found the leaves of the mesquite, coleopterous insects, wild 

 gooseberries, etc. 



An egg of this species, taken by Dr. Palmer at Camp 

 Grant, measures 1.25 inches in length by 1.00 in breadth. 

 The ground-color is a cream white, beautifully marked with 

 ragged spots of a deep chestnut. In shape it closely cor- 

 responds with the egg of the California Partridge. North 

 American Birds, Baird, Brewer and Ridgway, Vol. III. 



SCALED OE BLUE PAETEIDGE. 



Callipepla Squamata. GRAY. 



SP. CHAR. Head with a full, broad, flattened crest of soft 

 elongated feathers. Prevailing color plumbeous -gray, with 

 a fine bluish caste on jugulum and nape, whitish on the 

 belly, the central portion of which is more or less tinged 

 with brownish ; sometimes a conspicuous abdominal patch 

 of dark rusty, the exposed surface of the wings tinged with 

 light yellowish-brown, and very finely and almost imper- 

 ceptibly mottled. Head and throat without markings, 

 light grayish-plumbeous; throat tinged with yellowish- 



