Male with a short broad crest; the forehead, a broad band over the eye, and the throat, white; loral space, a band below the eye, and a broad semilunar band on the fore neck, black; upper part of the head, hind and lower part of the neck all round, brownish-red; upper parts variegated with chestnut-red, black, grey, and yellowish; lower yellowish-white, undulatingly barred with black, the sides streaked with red. Female similar, but without a black band on the fore neck, its place being merely spotted, and with the throat and a band over the eye brownish-yellow. Young with the feathers having a central yellowish line, the lower parts dull yellowish-brown, without black bands. _Male_, 10, 15. _Female_, 9-1/2, 14. Breeds abundantly from Texas to Massachusetts; in the interior, high on the Missouri, and in all intermediate districts. Quail or Partridge, Perdix virginiana, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. vi. p. 21. Perdix virginiana, Bonap. Syn. p. 124. American Partridge or Quail, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 647. Virginian Partridge, Perdix virginiana, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. i. p. 388; v. v. p. 564. 292. 2. Ortyx Californica, Lath. Californian Partridge. Plate CCCCXIII. Fig. 10. Male and Female. On the top of the head an elegant crest of six elongated, recurved, clavate feathers, of which the webs are deflected. Male with the forehead dull yellow, the crest black; upper part of head dark brown, margined with a band of white; throat deep black, margined with a semilunar band of white, curving up to the eyes; hind part and sides of neck light ash-grey, beautifully marked with black, each feather having a marginal band and central line of that colour; lower half of neck anteriorly, and a part of the breast, greyish-blue, the rest of the breast light yellowish, its central part chestnut, with semilunar black bands; sides olive-brown, each feather with a central white streak; the rest of the lower parts light yellowish-brown, faintly barred with dusky, the lower tail-coverts with a central dark brown streak; back and wings greyish-brown, tinged with olive, outer secondaries margined externally, inner internally, with light red; tail bluish-grey, edged with olivaceous. Female with the tuft shorter, the colours duller; the upper part of the head dull brown, throat and cheeks brownish-white, streaked with dusky; hind part and sides of neck greyish-brown, each feather with a medial and marginal band of black, as in the male, but fainter; lower part of neck and part of breast brownish-grey; the rest of the upper and lower parts as in the male. _Male_, 9-1/4, wing 4-7/12. _Female_, 9, wing 4-7/12. Upper California. Abundant. Resident. Californian Partridge, Perdix californica, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. v. p. 152. 293. 3. Ortyx plumifera, Gould. Plumed Partridge. Plate CCCCXXII. Fig. 1. Male. Fig. 2. Female.