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FRANK FORESTER’S FIELD SPORTS. 
1. The Common American Quail, 
2. The Californian Quail, 
3. The Plumed Quail, 
4. The Welcome Quail, 
5. The Painted Quail, 
6. The Douglass Quail, 
Ortyx Vlrginiana; 
Ortyx Californica; 
Ortyx Plumi/era ; 
Ortyx Neoxena ; 
Ortyx Picta; 
Ortyx Douglasii. 
Of these six species the first alone is yet an object of pursuit 
being found everywhere south of the 43rd degree of north lati 
tude, from the waters of the Kennebeck to those of the Rio 
Grande, if not yet farther to the south. The second, third, 
fourth, and fifth species are all inhabitants of California, as far 
north as the valley of the Columbia—the third, or Plumed Quail, 
being found farther north among the Rocky Mountains ; and the 
last, named after its discoverer, being a denizen of Lower Califor¬ 
nia only, and never straying so far northward as his congeners. 
Still of the third family Tetraonida , we have in the United 
States and Canada, a second genus Tetrao , Grouse proper, of 
which three distinct and well marked species belong to the 
States, if not four. Two more, in addition to the above, inhabit 
the British provinces, and thence northward to the Arctic 
Ocean; and four others are peculiar to the Rocky Mountains, 
and the valley of the Columbia. Three of these species are tole¬ 
rably plentiful, and two of them 1 have myself shot, the one being 
the Ruffed, and the other the Canada Grouse, respectively vul¬ 
garised, as the Partridge, and Spruce Partridge. 
Within a few years, there is little doubt that the western spe¬ 
cies will be exposed for sale in our markets ; and, should Whit¬ 
ney’s Oregon Railroad go into effect in our days, who knows but 
we may live to shoot Cocks of the Plains ourselves, and bring 
them home the next day to dinner at Delmonico’s r 
The ten American species of Grouse are as follows: 
1. The Common Ruffed Grouse, Tetrao Umbellus ; 
2. The Pinnated Grouse— or the Heath-Hen, Tetrao Cupido, 
3. The Canada Grouse— or Spruce Grouse, Tetrao Cana¬ 
densis ; 
4. The Dusky Grouse, Tetrao Obscurus ,* 
