GAMBEL'S QUAIL. 

 Lophortyx gambeli. 



This is a richly-colored bird, and has the flanks 

 bright chestnut streaked with white. There are no 

 scalelike markings on the belly, and the central patch is 

 black, the forehead dark, and the back of the head red- 

 dish. The upper parts are much as in L. calif ornica. 

 The female resembles that of L. calif ornica vallicola, 

 but has the flanks chestnut and the belly without any 

 trace of scalelike markings. It is, perhaps, a little 

 larger than the California partridge. Its range is north- 

 western Mexico and the neighboring portions of the 

 United States, .from southern California and Arizona 

 to western Texas, and north as far as southern Utah. 



Besides this, other species of this genus are found 

 in Mexico, and in one or two of these the sexes are 

 markedly unlike. 



Gambel's quail is a dweller in the desert country of 

 the south, and ranges from eastern southern Califor- 

 nia through Arizona, and much of New Mexico, into 

 western Texas. It is also found in southern Nevada 

 and portions of Utah, and south into western Mexico. 



With a general similarity to the valley quail, it has 



