Identifier: americangamebird00grin (find matches)
Title: American game-bird shooting
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938
Subjects: Game and game-birds Hunting
Publisher: New York, Forest and stream publishing company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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e army officers used tohunt them on horseback, following up the birds andshooting them whenever and however they could. The scaled quail, which is also sometimes calledwhite topknot quail, or cottonhead, does not differ inhabits from its relative, the chestnut-bellied scaledpartridge. Concerning the scaled partridge in southern Arizona,Mr. Herbert Brown, of Tucson, writes me : The blue quail are less common than Gambels quail,and do not, as a rule, live on the desert proper, but in-cline rather to the higher and rougher foothills. I sawa dog tried on only one, but am inclined to believe intheir sprinting qualities. I have shot them in the foot-hills of the Tucson Mountains, west of here, and as far 84 AMERICAN GAME BIRD SHOOTING east as the Graham Mountains, where I found themquite plentiful. They are quick, active birds, and aspretty as pictures. I take it for granted that they arefound much further east, but the eastern slope of theGrahams is as far as my personal acquaintance goes.
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California Quail. CALIFORNIA QUAIL; VALLEY QUAIL. Lophortyx californica.Lophortyx califomica vallicola. Two forms of this species are found on the Pacificcoast: a northern race, inhabiting the coast of Califor-nia north of Monterey, and which has been introducedin British Columbia, Washington and Oregon, and apaler race found in the interior valleys and foothillsof California, south through Lower California to CapeSt. Lucas. In the California quail the flanks are streaked withwhite on a brown or grayish ground. The feathersof the belly, in the male, are edged with black, and havea central patch of chestnut. The upper parts generallyare smoky brown, the inner edges of the tertiary feath-ers buffy, the throat black, and the forehead whitish.The female has no black or white on the head, is plaingrayish or brownish, lacks the chestnut belly patch, andhas the scale-like markings of the under part less dis-tinct. The crest is much shorter than in the male. Thelength is 9/^ or 10 inches, and

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