. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley . uffy,irregularly spotted over the entire surface. Food. — Largely insects and weed seed. The California partridge is the counterpart of the valley quail inhabits (see 294a). 294a. L. c vallicola (Ridgw.). Valley Partridge. Adults. — Like californicus, but lighter colored, upper parts grayish brown, edgings of tertials buffy or whitish ; flanks olive grayish or grayish brown. Young : chest gray, marked with triangular white spots, belly faintly barred with gray
. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley . uffy,irregularly spotted over the entire surface. Food. — Largely insects and weed seed. The California partridge is the counterpart of the valley quail inhabits (see 294a). 294a. L. c vallicola (Ridgw.). Valley Partridge. Adults. — Like californicus, but lighter colored, upper parts grayish brown, edgings of tertials buffy or whitish ; flanks olive grayish or grayish brown. Young : chest gray, marked with triangular white spots, belly faintly barred with grayish; Fig 195 Female upper parts brownish, streaked and spotted with wbitish. Distribution. — Resident in arid Upper and Lower Sonoran zones from Oregon south through California and western Nevada to Cape St. Lucas, Lower California. When you come down the sides of the Sierra from the yellowpines into the digger pines and oaks of the Sonoran zones in thebreeding season, the quail that fly before you are smaller and bluerthan the mountain quail above, and the flat tone of their quick w7io- GROUSE, PARTRIDGES, QUAILS, ETC. 121. Fig. 1% \ alle) are-you-ah? who-are-you-ah? strikes the ear as a subtle expression ofthe difference between the hot low-lands and the cool mountains. Thelowland bird has two forms differ-ing slightly in color, the valley quailoccupying the arid sections and theCalifornia the humid. The brushy parts of Golden GatePark in San Francisco abound withquail, and from the benches one can\yatch the squads of plump hen-likelittle creatures as they move aboutwith stately tread or stand talkingsociably in low monosyllables. Ifthey hear a footstep on the walk theystart up and hurry across the pathlike hens before a wagon, top-knots dropped over their bills, neckscraned forward, and legs stretched as they patter along in doublequick time. When less in a luirry they run in a stiff, prim way, thecocks with a dignified gait, the hens with a demure feminine a
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