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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