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Quails. 
more. Those tliat have found their way into our aviaries or to 
the London Zoo are : — • 
C\Lii'()RxiAX OuAir,. This is hy far the most common 
member of our aviaries and has been frequently bred. The hens 
are very proHfic, often laying' fifty or more e,G:g"s in a season 
The yount^- in a normal year are i;enerally reared without diffi- 
culty, and, if they can get shelter from the wet, will stand our 
winter very well. They have been turned out in different parts 
of the country, biU the experiment does not seem to have l)een 
a success. I don't know when they were first introduced into 
England, Init Mons. Pichot tells us in the February number of 
the Ai'iciilfiiral Ma^i^acinc that they were first introduced into 
I'rance in iSqO, when six cocks and five hens fetched the extra- 
ordinary price of £112. The American ornitholo.^ists claim that 
there is a sub-species of this handsome variety, which they have 
named Lo[^Jiort\x callfonuca valli. I can only say that I have 
shot many hundreds of these birds both in the mountains, foot- 
hills, and valleys, and have not noticed any difference in theni 
but of course this sub-species may only be found in the mor(> 
arid i)arts of the country that I did not visit. Their eg'j^'s, which 
vary a good deal, are buflfish white, either spotted or blotched 
witli reddish brown. They are not quite so prolific in the wild 
state .'IS they are in our aviaries, but T have found nests contain- 
ing as many as twenty eggs. 
Bi.AcK-TiiROA i Kn Ckkstf.d Ouatl. a rare species from 
Central America. It ai)pcars to have nested in Miss Baker"? 
aviaries in 1007 — B.N. \ ol. first series — seven eggs were 
laid, ])Ut young were not reared and very few particulars were 
Californian 
Black-throated Crested 
White-cheeked Crested 
Scaled 
Douglas 
Virginian 
Cuban 
Mexican Black-breasted 
Massena 
Bahama 
Spotted 
Sonnini's Crested 
Mountain Crested 
Lopliortyx caUfornica 
Enpsychortyx lencopogon 
Eupsych ortyx ni^roi^ithiris 
Calipepla sqiiamata 
Lopliortyx douglasi 
Colhnis Tirginicnsis 
Coliniis cuhancnsis 
Coliiius pectoralis 
Cyrlonix montesuma 
Ortyx bahameiisis 
Odontophorus gtittatus 
Enpsychortyx soiiiiiiii 
Oreortyx pictus 
