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and in a similar situation. At Cabezon, May 7, and at Banning, 

 June 8, two others were discovered, each of these also containing 

 eight eggs. 



Broods of young were noted, first at Banning, June 8, then 

 at Dos Palmos, June 21, and, after July 1, whenever the species 

 was encountered. Specimens taken at Banning early in June are 

 in juvenal plumage ; some from Vallevista, the first week in Sep- 

 tember, are in complete first winter plumage, but many half- 

 grown juvenals were seen at the same time. 



On Pinon Flat, at Dos Palmos, and at points in Palm Cafion, 

 the valley quail and desert quail (L. gambeli), were found at 

 the same places, frequently in the same flocks. In Palm Canon 

 at about 3000 feet, on June 12, and about the nearby Potrero 

 Spring, 3500 feet, on the following day, the two species were 

 seen flocking together. At Dos Palmos, in June and August, the 

 same condition of affairs was noted. A frequent manner of 

 occurrence here was for a female with her brood to be accom- 

 panied by five or six adults of either species. In the desert 

 regions quail were usually observed along those ravines which 

 contained occasional slight seepages of water.- 



The stations at Idyllwild and on the summit of Thomas Moun- 

 tain may be taken as marking the highest range of the species 

 in the San Jaeintos. At the former point three were seen on 

 June 8, at the latter a small flock August 17, each time in the 

 near neighborhood of areas of chaparral extending upward 

 between tracts of conifers, thus invading Transition. 



Lophortyx gambeli Gambel 

 Desert Quail 



A common species at the desert base of the mountains, rang- 

 ing upward on the eastern slopes to the edge of Upper Sonoran. 

 Our parties met with it at Pinon Flat, Dos Palmos, and Palm 

 Canon; none was seen at Whitewater, Snow Creek, Cabezon or 

 Banning, though the species has been recorded from all these 

 points (Gilman, 1907, p. 148). At Cabezon, however, a member 

 of the expedition was told that the species was sometimes seen 

 there in winter. 



