350 AMERICAN GAME BIRD SHOOTING 
follow them, it will be seen that many of these quail 
cannot be pursued for sport, as sport is commonly un- 
derstood ; that is to say, the shooting of a game bird 
over a pointing dog. This a priori conclusion is con- 
firmed by statements made by sportsmen who have 
lived for many years in Arizona, one of whom, Mr. 
Herbert Brown, not only a sportsman, but a field natur- 
alist of great ability, tells me that he has never heard 
of a dog being used on Gambel’s partridge in all the 
time he has lived in the southwest. Yet Allen Kelly 
says that in the irrigated districts of the Imperial 
Valley, Cal., Gambel’s quail lies well where there is 
cover, but on the bare ground runs like a deer. 
I have seen the valley quail in southern California 
and the mountain quail in the Sierras, but have 
never yet seen either hunted with dogs. That the 
mountain quail can be shot over dogs is hardly to be 
doubted, but the case is different with the valley quail 
living in the lowlands of dry California. On the other 
hand, in Vancouver Island the introduced valley quail 
sometimes lies to a dog among the thick undergrowth, 
much as the eastern quail would lie. When startled 
they get up in a thick coveys of fifteen or twenty birds 
and scatter and sometimes lie well. 
VALLEY QUAIL. 
Of the California valley quail in the vicinity of 
Pasadena, N. P. Leach says on this point: “Up here 
on the mesas and among the sage brush and grease- 
