Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: color is a rusty drab. A third is 1.18 by .95 inches; groundcolor a creamy white marked by large scattered spots of a chestnut-brown.—Baird, Brewer and Ride/way. GAMBEL'S PARTRIDGE; AKIZONA QUAIL. Lophortyx gambeli.—Gambel. Sp. Char-—General color cinereous; abdoman plain whitish ; inner or upper webs of tertials broadly edged with white. Elongated feathers of the sides bright chestnut with a medial streak of white. Male.—The ash on the breast of a bluish caste, and the whitish of the belly strongly tinged with yellowish-buff, especially anteriorly; abdonian with a black patch. Anterior half of the head, and whole throat, deep black, bordered posteriorly with two broad, well-defined stripes of white,—the upper of these crossing the middle of the vertex and running backward above the auriculars to the occiput; the other beginning at the posterior angle of the eye and running downward. Vertex and occiput bright rufous, bounded anteriorly and laterally with black. Crest of black elongated, club-shaped, and considerably recurved feathers, springing from the vertex just behind the black bar, one and a half inches long. Wing, 4.70; tail, 4.30; bill, .50 long, and .25 deep; tarsus, 1.15; middle toe, 1.15. Female.—Head plain grayish, without white, black, or rufous; no black on abdoman, which also lacks a decided buff tinge; the cinereous of breast without bluish caste. Crest dusky, less than one inch long. Wing, 4.55; tail, 4.20. Young.—Upper parts ashy brown, minutely and indistinctly mottled transversely with dusky; scapulars and wing-coverts with white shaft-streaks, the former with pairs of dusky spots. Breast and sides with obsolete whitish bars on an ashy ground. Chick.—Dull sulphur-yellowish; a vertical patch, and two parallel stripes along each side of the ba...