percent; and sunflowers (Helianthus annuus end. other. species). 2.87 percent. 
Stomachs that reflected these food preferences throughout most of the 
year were collected in the agricultural area in the vicinity of 
Tucumcari, N. Mex. The 3 stomachs of the bdirds introduced into New 
York State, and killed in October, contained such foods as the bobwhite 
would eat in en egricultural area, as wheat, kafircorn, oats, buckwneat 
(Fagopyrum fagopyrum), and ragweed (Ambrosia elatior). 
In the stomachs collected in areas where only native vegetation 
' was present such plants predominated as sophia (Sophia menziesii), 5.98 
percent; lotus (Lotus trispermus), 3.35 percent: vetch (Vicia exigua), 
1.29 percent; mesquite (Prosopis spp.), 1.36 percent; cactus (Opuntia spp.), 
1.47 percent; evolvulus (Evolvulus arizonicus and other species), 2.34 
percent; morning glory (Ipomoea cardiophylla), 1.76 percent; sage (Salvia 
spp.), 1.26 percent; and broomweed (Gutierrezia texana), 4.19 percent. 
This last item was predominant in winter stomachs from Ozona and mertzon 
on the plains of western Texas, comprising 54.04 and 65.96 percent, 
respectively. Stomachs containing most of the above or closely related 
species came from such widely separated areas as the Santa Rita Range 
Reserve and the Huechuca Mountains, Ariz., the San Andres Mountains, N. Mex., 
the open country near Corona and Fort Sumner, N. wex., and the pinon- 
juniper association near Queen, N. Mex. 
The indiscriminate feeding habits of the scaled quail are indicated 
by the fact that no single plant item constituted as much as 6 percent 
of the yearly food of the species as a whole, while fully 292 were recorded 
merely as a part of one percent or as traces. Some of these, however, 
did constitute high percentages in a few stomachs from certain localities. 
Most of the vegetable items occurred as seeds, with, frequently, fragments 
of herbage and pods of the plant from wnich they came, 
The more important seeds that have been segregated under the caption 
"Miscellaneous seeds with incidental pod, fruit debris, end herbage" were 
jointfir (Ephedra trifurce), foxtail (Chaetochloa macrostachya), panic 
grass (Panicum hallii), corn (Zea mays), sotol (Dasylirion spp.), snake- 
root (Aristolochia watsoni), mesquite (Prosopis velutina, P. juliflora, 
and P, glandulosa), acacia (Acacia vernicosa and other species), mimosa 
{Mimosa spp.), caltrop (Xallstroemia spo.), flax (Linum spp.), spurge 
(Chamaesyce spp.), queen's delight (Stillingia spp.), sida (Sida diffusa), 
ragweed (Ambrosia spp.), and figmarigold (Boebera papposa). 
The principal fruits, usually indicated only by their seed residue, 
consisted of juniper (Juniperus sp.), desert hackberry (Celtis pallida), 
mistletoe (Phoradendron spp.), barrel cactus (Echinocactus wislizenii), 
other cacti (Opuntia spp.), and tomatilla (Lycium spp.). Their combined 
percentage, however, amounted to only 3.70 percent. 
