XVIII 



THE SOUTHWESTERN PARTRIDGES 



THE three remaining partridges, known as the 

 Gambel's partridge, the scaled-partridge, and 

 the Massena partridge, may be termed the Southwest- 

 ern partridges, since they are found in a limited area 

 of which New Mexico or Western Texas may be said 

 to be the centre. 



The scaled-partridge, with its sub-species, the chest- 

 nut-bellied scaled-partridge, inhabits the table-lands of 

 Mexico, and is found from the valley of Mexico north 

 to Central and Western Texas, Santa Fe*, New Mexico, 

 and Southern Arizona. Gambel's partridge, which 

 enjoys the proud distinction of having no sub-species, 

 is distributed throughout Western Texas, New Mex- 

 ico, Arizona, Southern Utah, Southern Nevada, South- 

 ern California, in the Colorado valley, and southward 

 into Northwestern Mexico. The Massena partridge 

 is found from the City of Mexico north to West- 

 ern Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. Gambel's par- 

 tridge and the scaled-partridge have much the same 

 habits as the valley-partridge of California, and run 

 equally as well ; much that has been said about that 

 bird applies to these. 



There is much diversity of opinion as to the per- 

 formance of the Massena before dogs. It is the least 

 abundant of the Southwestern partridges. 



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