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AMEEICAM QVTAUS. 



forma. The Plumed Partridge, Orcorfi/x pictus, is also a very beautiful bird, with two long 

 plumes on the head ; found in California. The Welcome Quail or Partridge, Ortyx neoxenus, 

 is seven and a half inches long ; found on the northwest coast of America. The Massena 

 Partridge, Cyrtonyx Massena, is found in Texas and Mexico. Gambel's Partridge, CalUpepla 



TiliS CALiroItNIA PAETIUDGE. 



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Oarahellii of Cassin ; and the Blue or Scaled Partridge, C. squamata^ are found in Texas and 

 Mexico. The Ortyx Texanus is found in Southern Texas and the valley of the Rio Grande. 



THE PIIASIANID^ OK PIIEASAI^TS. 



This family includes the most beautiful of the rasorial birds ; indeed, some of them may per- 

 haps be justly regarded as pre-eminent in this respect over all the rest of their class. In these 

 the bill is of moderate size and compressed, with the upper mandible arched to the tip, where it 

 overhangs the lower one ; the tarsi are of moderate length and thickness, usually armed with one 



