GAMBEL’S QUAIL. 
Lophortyx gambel. 
This is a richly-colored bird, and has the flanks 
bright chestnut streaked with white. There are no 
scalelike markings on the belly, and the central patch is 
black, the forehead dark, and the back of the head red- 
dish. The upper parts are much as in L. californica. 
The female resembles that of L. californica vallicola, 
but has the flanks chestnut and the belly without any 
trace of scalelike markings. It is, perhaps, a little 
larger than the California partridge. Its range is north- 
western Mexico and the neighboring portions of the 
United States, from southern California and Arizona 
to western Texas, and north as far as southern Utah. 
Besides this, other species of this genus are found 
in Mexico, and in one or two of these the sexes are 
markedly unlike. 
Gambel’s quail is a dweller in the desert country of 
the south, and ranges from eastern southern Califor- 
nia through Arizona, and much of New Mexico, into 
western Texas. It is also found in southern Nevada 
and portions of Utah, and south into western Mexico. 
With a general similarity to the valley quail, it has 
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