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AMERICAN QXJAXLS. 
fornia. The Plumed Partridge, Oreortyx pictus, Js also a very beautiful bird, with two long 
plumes on the head ; found in California, The Welcome Quail or Partridq-e, Ortpx neoxenus, 
is seven and a half inches long; found on the northwest coast of America. The Massena 
Partridge, Oyrtonyx Massena^ is found in Texas and Mexico. Gambel's Partridge, Callipepla 
THjE califoenia paktkidge. 
Gamhellii of Cassin ; and the Blue or Scaled Partridge, O. squamata, are found in Texas and 
Mexico. The Ortyx Texanus is found in Southern Texas and the valley of the Rio Grande. 
THE PHASIAJ^ID^ OE PHEASAOTS. 
This family includes the most beautiful of the rasorial birds ; indeed, some of them may per- 
haps be justly regarded as pre-eminent in this respect over all the rest of their class. In these 
the bill is of moderate size and compressed, with the upper mandible arched to the tip, where it 
overhangs the lower one ; the tarsi are of moderate length and thickness, usually armed with one 
