18 QUAILOLOGY - ORNITHOLOGY 



mences the latter part of March or early in Arpil. Complete 

 complements are reported as early as April 7th and as late as 

 August 15th, according to the latitude and altitude. Eggs ten to 

 nineteen in number. 



In the higher mountains but a single brood is raised in a season 

 while in the lower foot-hills two broods are raised, the male care- 

 ing for the first brood while the female is hatching the second. 



HABITS 



Similar to the Mountain Partridge, in fact it is often known by 

 that name and is more deserving of the title than the previous 

 species. 



Its food consists of insects, buds and tender tops of leguminous 

 plants, small seeds and berries of various kinds. 



SAN PEDRO PARTRIDGE 



Oreortyx pictus cofinis. 

 Geog. Dist. — San Pedro Mountains, Lower California and southward. 

 Sp. Char. Upper parts grayer; bill thicker than O. pictus. 

 NESTS AND EGGS 



Nesting habits the same as the preceding species, eggs re- 

 semble in shape, color and number. 



HABITS 



Same as preceding species. 



Breeding range from foot-hills to tops of the highest peaks 

 (up to about 12,500 feet), not common below 2,500 feet altitude. 



SCALED PARTRIDGE 



Callipepla squamata. ( Vig. ) 



Geog. Dist, — Northern Mexico and border of the United States, from 

 Western Texas to New Mexico and Southern Arizona. 



Sp. Chak. General color bluish-plumbeous, shading into olive-brown on 

 the back and wings and to rufous on the under parts behind the wings, 

 with a large abdominal area of orange-brown; the feathers of the neck all 

 around and most of those of the under parts, sharply edged with black, 

 producing a peculiar shell like appearance; on the breast the feathers also 

 concealed reddish shaft-lines. Long feathers of the sides like the back in 

 color, with white brown-edged stripes or long-oval spots. On the flank and 

 crissum the feathers lose the scaly appearance, becoming blended rusty-brown, 

 with linear, sagittate, or cordate dark spots. Inner secondaries edged with 

 buff or whitish, affording to the folded wing the lengthwise stripe so char- 



