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Equator twice. They have since produced one brood of young, but 

 which unfortunately all died. 



" The young birds are mottled with pale tawny and brown ; the 

 head is tawny, with a dark brown stripe reaching from the crown 

 down the back of the neck to the shoulders ; each of the wing-coverts 

 has a light-colored tip, and a stripe down the middle." 



This species is peculiar to the countries of Western North America, 

 though we see no reason why it might not be readily naturalized in 

 any portion of this continent within the same ranges of latitude. 



2. Callipepla picta [Douglas), — The Plumed Partridge. 



Ortyx picta, Douglas, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, XVI, p. 143 (1828). 

 Ortyx plumifera, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1837, p. 42. 



Aud. B. of Am. PI. CCCCXXIIj Oct. ed. V, Plate CCXCI; Gould, 

 Mon. Plate XV. 



Specimens of this species are in the collection of the Expedition, 

 and appear to have been obtained in Oregon. The only notice 

 that we find of it, by either of the naturalists, is by Mr. Peale, as 

 follows : 



" The Columbia River appears to be the northern limit of this species. 

 We saw it on the Willamette River, but, although in large flocks, it was 

 not common. South of the Umpqua River, we saw it in greater num- 

 bers. In California it is in a great measure replaced by the California 

 Partridge. 



" Specimens of this Partridge were obtained by Captains Lewis and 

 Clarke, on their journey across the continent to the mouth of the 

 Columbia River, in 1806. Captain Lewis had a drawing made with 

 the intention, it is supposed, of publishing it with his journal, but, as 

 he died without accomplishing that object, the credit of this, with 

 many other discoveries of that Expedition, has been lost." 



This handsome and rather singular-looking species does not appear 

 to be so abundant nor so extensively diffused as the preceding. It is 

 apparently restricted to the countries west of the Rocky Mountains, 

 and is yet comparatively rare in collections. 



