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Quail, Gambel's;Quail, Hybrid;Quail, Scaled
Callipepla squamata;Lophortyx gambelii

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Quail, Gambel's;Quail, Hybrid;Quail, Scaled
Context: Hybrid Quail, Scaled x Gambel'. Marcham, Frederick George, Louis Agassiz Fuertes & the Singular Beauty of Birds, 1971, Plate 13.. Letter in records of the Laboratory of Ornithology: "An interesting half-breed Quail. Probably Gambels x Scaled. This bird was sent me by Mr. W.E. Watson of Pinos Altos, having been killed by him from a flock of Gambels Quail November 26, 1916 on Whiskey Creek a few miles from Pinos Altos, Grant County, New Mexico. It is a male, and brief description is: - Crest somewhat shorter than male Gambels and feathers not clubbed. Chin and throat, crest, and middle of belly patch rich chestnut. Thus chestnut taking the place of black in Gambels. Forehead light gray, hind head chestnut. Fore-breast color of Gambels but showing the shelled edgings and black shaft lines of Scaled in a lesser degree. I have just sent the skin to Mr. L.A. Fuertes and he comments thereon, in part, as follows:- 'This is the second instance I have known of wild hybridization of American partridges of different genera. The other was a male hybrid mountain plumed Quail and California Valley Quail. I painted the bird for Loomis but both the specimen and the picture were burned in the San Francisco fire.'" R.T. Kellogg, Silver City, New Mexico, August 11, 1927
Date: 1916
Location: Laboratory of Ornithology
Medium: Watercolor
ID Number: 2271
Size: 14.5" x 10.75"
Support: Cardboard
Type: Watercolors
Title: Hybrid Quail
Publication: Singular Beauty of Birds