10 FRANK SCHLEY'S PARTRIDGE AND PHEASANT SHOOTING. 



.ZVb. 3. Plumed Partridge; Mountain Quail. Inhabits 

 mountain-ranges of California and Oregon towards the coast, 

 Nevada, Eastern Slope and foot-hills of the Sierra Nevada. 

 Eidgway. 



No. 4. California Partridge; Valley Quail. Inhabits Val- 

 ley portions and foot-hills of the Pacific province of the 

 United States, south to Cape St. Lucas. 



No. 5. Gamble's Partridge; Arizona waz7. Inhabits Col- 

 orado Yalley of the United States, north to Southern Utah, 

 and East to Western Texas. 



No. 6. Scaled, or Blue Partridge. Inhabits Table-lands of 

 Mexico and Yalley of the Bio Grande of Texas. Most abun- 

 dant on the high broken table-lands and mesquite plains. 



No. 7. Massena Partridge. Inhabits Chiefly on the Up- 

 per Rio Grande from the high plains of the Pecos, Fort 

 Whipple, Arizona, Northern Mexico, southward, on the 

 west coast, to Mazatlan. 



Of these seven species and varieties of beautiful game 

 birds, six of which, the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, 

 and seventh, nowhere exists to the eastward of the Missis- 

 sippi Eiver, and have never fallen before my gun. These 

 six I shall only notice by giving their character and his- 

 tory, which I will produce from the best authors in North 

 American Ornithology. The first species, Quail; Partridge; 

 Bob-White, I oifer to the sportsmen as the object of my 

 pursuit, and the special aim of this treatise. This species 

 being found in great abundance in the whole of the Eas- 

 tern Province of North America, and is the well-known 

 game bird of this country. In systematizing this work I 

 shall begin with the Ornithological description of the sec- 

 ond variety, and continue on with the third, fourth, fifth, 

 sixth, and seventh. I shall then close this department of 

 my work with giving a full and precise account of the 

 character, history, haunts, habits, flight, food, &c., and the 

 most successful methods I have used in hunting and shoot- 

 ing the .first species. 



