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 THE-CO.B.R Volume XIII September-October, 1911 Number A HYBRID QUAIL By M. E. PECK 'ITH ONE PHOTO N INTERESTING hybrid quail, evidently Oreor/yx pichts plum47crus x . Lophortyx calbrn[cus caltbrn/cus, was secured by Mr. Geo. D. Peck, April 1, 1911, on Silves River, Harney Co., Oregon, about two miles above the town of Burns. The specimen is a male in high plumage, and was one of a small flock of quail that a man had been feeding about his place during: the winter. Whether there were any other hybrids in the flock, or whether the rest were all O. p. pluntrus, was not made out. This bird was killed, apparently, by flying against a telephoue wire. It was mounted by Mr. Peck while fresh. A flock of L. c. calbrnicus was seen near the place where it was secured, and according to Dr. Hibbard, of Burns, they are found throughout that section of the state. Dr. Hibbard has a mounted specimen in his collection. O.p. phtmt?rus is distributed rather locally through the Harney Valley, but does not seem to occur on the sur- rounding mountains, at least not on the upper course of the Silves. The following is a detailed description of this hybrid: Back, scapulars, and wings abovo deep ash, strongly suffused with olivaceous browu anteriorly, purer posteriorly; tail clear dark ash; inner edges of tertials light buffy; crown and nape ashy, the former with an olive brown wash, the latter with obscure roesial spots of blackish aud minute wavy markings of black and white; forehead and lores soiled whitish, the latter with fine black lines; a black super- ciliary stripe, continuous with black markings of lores; a whitish stripe above and behind the black, passing backward above the blackish auriculars to sides of occipi- tal region; chin and throat black, except a small, ill-defined area of mixed chestnut and black on upper throat, the black extending on sides of head to posterior angle of eye, and bordered all aronud by a white stripe, which is broadest on sides of