Bird Life Throuult tlip Camera. 
donien, and strongly so with brown on the sides of body and 
Hanks. A little smaller than the male. 
Habitat: Its natural range is the Western States of 
N. America, extending north to Washington, south to Cape 
St. Lucia, Lower California, and eastward to Nevada. It has, 
however, been introduced into several countries. 
Wild life : The following notes are compiled from the 
records of several traveller naturalists and various field notes. 
They favour undergrowth and thickets, near or alongside water- 
courses, bush -covered hillsides and ravines, and also frequent 
the roads, cultivated land, vineyards, and edges of clearings 
to feed. They mate in March or a little earlier, according to 
season, and the flocks of the winter gradually break up into 
pairs. In localities where it is not harrassed and hunted, it 
becomes very tame, in fact almost domesticated, and nests 
close to houses and outbuildings, and in garden shrubberies. 
Mostly only one brood is raised, l)ut at times two, in the 
latter case the male takes entire charge of the first brood when 
the^ are about three weeks old, the lien then laying and in- 
cubating her second clutch. In the fall, when family cares 
are over, they assemble in large i^acks. 
Food: Seeds and insects. 
Nest: Merely a slight hollow sci-atched in the ground, 
and slightly lined — the position varies greatly — under the shel- 
ter of a rock, a log, small bush, tufts of grass or weed are the 
more usual, but nests have been found in the open, and also 
in the forked branches of trees 
E(/gs : The clutch is very variable, usually from twelve 
to sixteen, but as many as twenty -four have been found in 
a nest. The eggs are variable as to colour, being greyisii or 
yellowisli-white, spotted and dusted with various hues of brown. 
Tiie only other species of Quail I have bred ai-e Chinese 
Puinlcd, Pectoral, and Common, which did well and thrived 
oii the saiiic ti'i'atmcnt as ,i;ivcn to the Califoniians. 
To be Co?i tinned. 
