BOBWHITE IN MEXICO 63 
and travelers have killed or frightened them off. One 
of the former assured me that he had killed as many 
as five at one shot. Ten miles south of Bolle’s, in the 
Altar Valley, we came across a small covey, perhaps a 
dozen in all. The bright, deep chestnut breast plumage 
of the males looked red in the sun, and gave the birds 
a most magnificent appearance. We secured but one, 
a male, the rest secreting themselves in the tall sacaton 
grass, which at this point was between 4 and 5 feet 
high, and as we had no dog we did not follow them. 
Our next place to find them was on the mesa, southeast 
of the peak, where we camped to hunt for them, but 
they were scarce here, and we managed to secure but 
few. 
“In addition to their bobwhite they have a second 
call of hoo-we, articulated and as clean-cut as their 
bobwhite. This call of hoo-we they used when 
scattered, and more especially when separated toward 
nightfall. At this hour I noted that although they oc- 
casionally called bobwhite, they never repeated the 
first syllable, as in the day time they now and then at- 
tempted to do. In body they are plumpness itself; in 
this respect, considering size, they overmatch the Ari- 
zona quail (Callipepla gambeli), with which I com- 
pared them. In actual size of body, however, the latter 
is the larger. Of three stomachs of this species exam- 
ined, one contained a species of mustard seed, a few 
chaparral berries, and some six or eight beetles and 
other insects, ranging in length from a half inch down 
