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293a. CHESTNUT-BELLIED SCALED PABTRIDGE. Callipepla squamata 

 eastano'ffastris (Brewst.) Geog. Dist. — Eastern Mexico and Lower Rio Grande o( 

 Texas. 



This bird is like the last, but tho general coloring is deeper and richer. The 

 bird appears to inhabit the low lands along the lower Rio Grande Valley, while 

 C. squamata inhabits the table lands of Northwestern Mexico, Western Texas, New 

 Mexico and Arizona. Mr. George H. Ragsdale, of Gainesville, Texas, kindly sent 

 me four eggs of this bird for inspection; these have a ground color varying from 

 white to a buff with the surface marked with minute specks of reddish brown. In 

 a specimen having a white ground the markings have a purplish tint. The shape of 

 the eggs is characteristic of all eggs of the Partridge. The sizes of the four speci- 

 mens are, 1.17x.94, 1.13x.92, 1.15x.94, 1.16x93. In the collection of the late Capt. B. F. 

 Goss there is a set of ten eggs of this Partridge taken May 14, 1886, in Western 

 Texas. They are dull white, speckled all over with fine dots of different shades of 

 brown. Some of the eggs have a few small brown spots on them more than a six- 

 teenth of an inch in diameter; they resemble the eggs of the Scaled Partridge, but 

 are more thinly speckled and much lighter in color. Sizes, 1.25x.99, 1.17x1.00, 1.24i 

 1.06, 1.26x1.05, 1.26X.99, 1.24x1.05, 1.25X.99, 1.27x1.00, 1.27x.99, 1.28x1.00. The nest 

 from which these eggs were taken was on the ground and made of leaves and dry 

 grass 



294. CALIFORNIA PARTRIDGE. Callipepla californica (Shaw.) Geog. 

 Dist. — Coast region of California south to Monterey. Introduced in Oregon, Wash- 

 ington and British Columbia. 













IH. CiALiFOKMiA Partridob OR Helmbt QuAiL (From Brehm). 



