. The bird book : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . Mountain PartridjScaled GALLINACEOUS BIRDS 293a. Chestnut-bellied Scaled Quail. Cal-lipepla squamata castanogastris. Range.—Lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas andand southward into Mexico. This sub-species is like the last with the addi-tion of a chestnut patch on the belly. Theirbreeding habits do not vary in any particular wayfrom those of the Scaled Partridge. 294. California Quail. Lophortyx califor-nica californica. Range.—Coas
. The bird book : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . Mountain PartridjScaled GALLINACEOUS BIRDS 293a. Chestnut-bellied Scaled Quail. Cal-lipepla squamata castanogastris. Range.—Lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas andand southward into Mexico. This sub-species is like the last with the addi-tion of a chestnut patch on the belly. Theirbreeding habits do not vary in any particular wayfrom those of the Scaled Partridge. 294. California Quail. Lophortyx califor-nica californica. Range.—Coast region of California, Oregon,Washington and British Columbia. This is one of the most beautiful of the Part-ridges, with its crest of feathers rising from thecrown and curving forwards so that the broaden-ed ends hang directlyover the bill. It isabout the size of the pre-ceding species, and is dis-tinguished from tlie fol-lowing one by its whiteforehead, chestnut patchon the belly and the scalyappearance of the feathersin that region, by its darkcrown and the gray flanksThey lay from eight totwenty eggs with a creamy white or huffy groundcolor, handsomely blotched with shades
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