. The gallinaceous game birds of North America, including the partridges, grouse, ptarmigan, and wild turkeys .. . hind one bowlder after another untilhe becomes a mere speck above one, or disappearsaltogether. The range of this handsome bird extendsfrom western Texas, through New Mexico and Arizonato California, where it meets the Valley Partridge in SanBernardino County, the Colorado desert proving aneffective barrier to its extension farther westward. It isalso found in southeastern Utah, and was introduced atFort Union in northern New Mexico. It also crossesour southern border and is a res
. The gallinaceous game birds of North America, including the partridges, grouse, ptarmigan, and wild turkeys .. . hind one bowlder after another untilhe becomes a mere speck above one, or disappearsaltogether. The range of this handsome bird extendsfrom western Texas, through New Mexico and Arizonato California, where it meets the Valley Partridge in SanBernardino County, the Colorado desert proving aneffective barrier to its extension farther westward. It isalso found in southeastern Utah, and was introduced atFort Union in northern New Mexico. It also crossesour southern border and is a resident of northwesternMexico. Any kind of a locality within its dispersionseems to be perfectly satisfactory to this bird; whether itbe a dry and sandy stretch blistering in torrid heat, or aplace rocky and bare of leafy covering, or tracts hiddenby the densest and most impregnable thickets—they areall the same to Gambels Quail. From my experience,however, in hunting them, I should say, if they had anychoice of locality it lay between dense clumps, mattedwith vines and bristling with thorns, into and through. GAM BEL S PARTRIDGE. 63 which nothing Hving- could penetrate save themselves,or mountain sides that ascend in a direct line andwhich are covered with jagged stones and slippery bowl-ders, over which the light-footed birds pass withouteffort, stopping occasionally to look down and jeer at thestruggling, panting mortal below who is striving to con-quer the ascent, and \Vhen the pursuer had arrivedat the summit, the Quail, it would be discovered,had run to the edge of another cafion, into which theyflew at the first appearance of the sportsman, and beganthe ascent from below on the opposite side, leaving thehunter gazing at them across the great gulf that rolled be-tween. If there is another species of game bird more tan-talizing and vexatious in its manners, and more utterlylost to all the finer feelings that should compel it to con-form to the recognized rules that govern
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