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Family PERDICIDAE.—T he Partridges. 
OREORTYX PICTUS, Baird. 
Plumed Partridge; Mountain Quail. 
Orlyx pida, Douglas, Trans. Linn. Soc. XYI, 1829,143. 
Callipepla pida , Gould, Mon. Odont. pi. xv.— Newberry, Rep. P. R. R. Yl, iv, 1857, 93. 
Orlyx plumifera , Gould, Pr. Zool. Soc. V, 1837, 42.— Aud. Syn. 1839, 200.— Ib. Birds Amer. V, 1842, 69 ; pi. 291. 
Perdix plumifera, Aud. Orn. Biog. V, 1839, 220 ; pi. 422. 
Lophorlyx plumifera, Nuttall, Man. I, 2d ed, 1840, 791. 
Oreortyx pidus, Baird, Gen. Rop. Birds, p. 642. 
Sp. Ch.—H ead with a crest of two straight feathers, much longer than the bill and head. Anterior half of the body 
grayish plumbeous ; the upper parts generally olivaceous brown, with a slight shade of rufous, this extending narrowly along 
the nape to the crest. Head beneath the eyes and throat orange chestnut, bordered along the orbits and a short distance 
behind by black, bounded anteriorly and superiorly by white, of which color is a short line behind the eye. Posterior half 
of the body beneath white, a large central patch (anteriorly bifurcating behind) with the flanks and tibial feathers orange 
chestnut brown, the sides of body showing black and white bands, the former color tinged with chestnut. Under tail 
coverts black, streaked with orange chestnut. Upper tertials margined internally with whitish. 
Length, 10.50 inches; wing, 5 ; tail, 3.25. 
Hub .—Mountain ranges of California and Oregon towards the coast. 
The Oregon quail, or plumed partridge, is very rare in Washington Territory, a few small 
coveys only being found about Vancouver, as I was informed by the officers of the garrison in 
1853. I never succeeded in finding them, though I hunted for them several times with a dog. 
They seem to become common south of the Columbia towards the prairies of the Willamette. 
I inquired especially for them in other parts of the Territory, but never heard of them. In 
California, south of San Francisco, this quail seems to be a rare curiosity to the market hunters, 
one or two sometimes occurring among flocks of the California quail, and known by the name 
of “mountain quail.”—C. 
According to Audubon and Townsend this bird inhabits Oregon. A few quail have been 
introduced from the Willamette valley upon the prairies back of Fort Vancouver, where, I am 
told, they are multiplying rapidly. A very little care at first and Washington Territory might 
be well stocked with these excellent game birds, as the absence of foxes west of the Cascade 
mountains, and the very mild, open winters generally experienced, leads us to hope that, after 
a fair start, they will, in all probability, never be exterminated.—S. 
LOPIIORTYX CALIFORNICA, Bonap. 
California Quail. 
Tetrao californicus, Shaw, Nat. Misc. pi. 345, (prior to 1801.) 
Perdix californica, Latham, Synopsis Suppl. Ind. Orn. II, App. 1801, p. lxii.— Aud. Orn. Biog. V, 1839, 152 ; pi. 413. 
Orlyx californica, Stephens in Shaw’s Zool. XI, 1819, 384.— Jardine, Game Birds, Nat. Libr. IV, 104; pi. xi.— 
Cuv. R. An. Illust. ed. Oiseaux, pi. lxiv. — Bennett, Gardens & Menag. Zool. Soc. II, 29, 
woodcut.— Aud. Syn. 1839, 199. — Ib. Birds Amer. V, 1842, 67 ; pi 290. 
Perdix ( Oilyx ) californica, Bonap, Syn. 1828, 125. 
Lophorlyx californica, Bonap. List, 1838.' — Nuttall, Man. I, 2d ed. 1840, 789. —Baird, Gen. Rep. Birds, p. 644. 
Callipepla californica, Gould, Mon. Odent. pi. xvi.— Reiciienbacii. Av. Syst. 1850, pi. xxvii.— Newberry, Rep. 
P. R. R. VI, iv, 1857, 92. 
Sp. Ch.—C rest black. Anterior half of body and upper parts plumbeous ; the wings and back glossed with olive brown. 
Anterior half of head above brownish yellow, the shafts of the stiff feathers black ; behind this is a white transverse band 
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