. Bird guide : water birds, game birds and birds of prey east of the Rockies . SCALED PARTRIDGE CalUpcpIa squamata. 10 in. With a whitish or buffy-white crest; plumage bluish-gray, with darker edges giving the bird tlie appearanceof being covered with scales. The female is more brown-ish, but is marked the same as the male. These birdsare locally abundant in arid, cactus-covered deserts,often at a distance from water, and frequently in com-pany with Gambel Partridge. Nest.—8 to 15 eggs are laid in some hollow under alaw busli or cactus: they are creamy-white, dotted withminute specks of pale b
. Bird guide : water birds, game birds and birds of prey east of the Rockies . SCALED PARTRIDGE CalUpcpIa squamata. 10 in. With a whitish or buffy-white crest; plumage bluish-gray, with darker edges giving the bird tlie appearanceof being covered with scales. The female is more brown-ish, but is marked the same as the male. These birdsare locally abundant in arid, cactus-covered deserts,often at a distance from water, and frequently in com-pany with Gambel Partridge. Nest.—8 to 15 eggs are laid in some hollow under alaw busli or cactus: they are creamy-white, dotted withminute specks of pale brown. (); April, May. Range.—Mexico north to Central and Western Texas,New Mexico and Arizona. 293a. Chestnut-bellied Scaled Partridge (C. s. castano-gastris), is more richly colored and has a chestnut patchon the middle of the belly. It is found in southernTexas and northeastern Mexico. 178 GAMBEL PARTRIDGE 295. Lophortyx gamhclii. 10 in. Head with an elegant recurved crest of six or sevenfeathers; normally these are carried in one packet sothat there appears
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