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TETEAONID^, GROUSE, PARTRIDGES. GEN. 187. 



Californian Partridge. Yalley Quail of the Californiaus. $ with a 

 small white line from bill to eye ; forehead whitish with black lines ; occiput 

 smoky-browii ; nuchal and cervical feathers with very dark edging and shaft 

 lines, and hue whitish speckling; general color of upper parts ashy with 

 strong olive-brown gloss, the edging of the inner quills brownish-orange ; 

 fore breast slaty-blae; under parts tawny deepening centrally into rich 

 golden-brown or orange-chestnut, all the feathers sharply edged with jet- 

 black ; sides like the back, with sharp Avhite stripes ; vent, flanks and cris- 

 sum tawny, with dark stripes. Besides lacking the definite head-markings, 

 the $ wants the rich sienna color of the under parts, which are whitish or 

 tawn}', M^th black semicircles as in the <J ; the breast is olive-gray. Lower 

 portions of California and Oregon, East nearly to the Colorado River; 

 abundant. Eggs of this and the next species speckled. Aud., v, 67, 

 pi. 290; NuTT., i, 2d ed. 789; Bd., 644; Coop., 549. . califoenicus. 

 GambeVs Partridge. Arizona Quail. $ without white loral line ; fore- 

 head black with whitish lines ; occiput chest- 

 nut ; nuchal and cervical feathers with dark 

 shaft lines, but few dark edgings or none, 

 and no white speckling ; general color of 

 upper parts clear ash, the edging of the 

 inner quills white ; fore breast like the back ; 

 under parts whitish, middle of belly with a 

 large jet-black patch ; sides rich purjjlish- 

 chestnut with sharp white stripes ; vent, 

 flanks and crissum white with dusky streaks. 

 Besides lacking the definite head-markings, 

 the 9 wants the black abdominal area, where 

 the feathers are whitish with dark lengthwise 

 touches. New Mexico and Arizona, both in 

 mountains and valleys, very abundant ; E. 

 to Pecos and San Elizario, Texas, bej-ond 

 FIG. 153. Giimbei's Paitiidge. which replaced by the Massena partridge ; 

 W. to Colorado R. and slightly bcj'ond ; N. to 35° and probably a little 

 further; S. into Mexico. Cass., 111. 45, pi. 9; Coues, Proc. Phila. Acad. 

 1866, 59, and Ibis, 1866, 46; Bd., 645; Coop., 553 gambelii. 



187. Genus CALLIPEPLA Wagler. 



n^\ -'' Scaled Partridge. Blue Quail. With a short, fidl, soft crest. Grayish- 

 blue, paler below, in places with a brownish shade, the sides with white 

 stripes, nearly the whole plumage marked with semicircular black edging of 

 the feathers, producing a scaled appearance ; inner edges of inner quills, and 

 end of crest, whitish ; crissum rusty with dark streaks. 9 not particularly 

 different. 9-10; wing 5 ; tail 4. Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and south- 

 ward. Cass., 111. 129, pi. 19; Bd., 646; Coop., 556. . . squamata. 



