GAAfBEL'S PARTRIDGE. 



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are very difficult to represent on paper. At the com- 

 mencement of the pairing season it gives voit p to a clear, 

 ringing note, usually uttered from some slight eminence, 

 wliich has been compared to the syllables yuk-kiic-ja 

 by Captain Bendire and killink by Dr. Coues, each 

 syllable distinctly uttered and the last two somewhat 

 lengthened. These notes strike each hearer so differ- 

 ently that it is impossible to w rite them down and convey 

 to each the impression he has received. To me the three- 

 syllabled word given above more clearly describes the 

 note as it was heard by me, but doubtless many others 

 would recognize it better by the word of two syllables as 

 given by Dr. Coucs. This note, or cry, is equivalent to 

 the Bob White of our Northern bird. The alarm note is 

 well indicated by Captain Bendire as criicr, criicr, fre- 

 quently repeated; a rasping, harsh sound, in uttering 

 which many members of a covey join. At other times, 

 when undisturbed, a soft pcct is heard, followed on 

 the slightest alarm by a sharp quit, succeeded by the 

 pattering of little feet upon the dry leaves as the covey 

 hurries away. It is a gentle, beautiful little creature, and 

 without Gambel's Partridge, with all its unsportsmanlike 

 ways, many an arid and rock-strewn district would be 

 deprived of its chief attraction. 











LOPHORTYX GAM BELL 



Geographical Distribution. — Western Texas, New Mexico, and 

 Arizona to San Bernardino County, California. Also in Southern 

 Utah and Nevada, and Northwestern Mexico. 



Adult Male. — Top of head and nape, bright chestnut; forehead, 

 black, interspersed with grayish above the bill, and crossed by a 

 narrow white line between the eyes; a white stripe from behind 

 the eye to back of ear-coverts, bordered above with black; chin, 

 throat, and side of face beneath the eyes, black, bordered all 



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