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 Contents
Praise for the Book������������������������������������������������������������������������������ xvii
Preface������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ xxi
Acknowledgments������������������������������������������������������������������������������� xxiii
Introduction��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� xxv
The Plot and the Characters��������������������������������������������������������������� xxvii

Chapter 1 Why Startups?: A Car and Dogs���������������������������������������1

Chapter 2 What Startup?: From Changing the World to
Changing Oneself!������������������������������������������������������������5
Chapter 3 Entrepreneurial Spirit: The Hilarious Case of
Ranchodas!�����������������������������������������������������������������������9
Chapter 4 Passion—The Nectar of Startups: The Case of Wrestler
Mahavir Singh Phogat!���������������������������������������������������13
Chapter 5 Startup Team: Lessons from Aamir Khan in Lagaan��������17
Chapter 6 Resilience: Learning from the Hindi Movie Guru!����������21
Chapter 7 Ideation with Innovation: An Incorrigible Drunkard
and a Newspaper Advertisement�������������������������������������25
Chapter 8 Medici Effect: Mixing Yoga and Omelet-Making
Sessions!��������������������������������������������������������������������������29
Chapter 9 Opportunity Sensing and Leveraging: Angry White
Men and the Rise of Donald Trump!������������������������������33
Chapter 10 Business Model: Learning from a Campus Love
Story�������������������������������������������������������������������������������37
Chapter 11 Niche Focus & Domain Knowledge for Entry
Strategy: Special 26���������������������������������������������������������41
Chapter 12 Which Product and Market to Go For: Learning
from a Love Story�����������������������������������������������������������45
xiv Contents

Chapter 13 Vanity Metrics: Beware of Nondrinker Drivers!��������������49

Chapter 14 Role of Assumptions: Flawed Interpretation of
Environment: “They think I am God!”���������������������������53
Chapter 15 Balance between Analysis and Action: Calculating
Laughing Points in a Movie for Marriage!�����������������������57
Chapter 16 Strategy: Chak De India ������������������������������������������������61
Chapter 17 Strategic Thinking: The Fine Art of Balancing:
Learning Driving without Sitting in the
Driver’s Seat!�������������������������������������������������������������������65
Chapter 18 Organizational Culture: Culture Eats Strategy for
Breakfast—Drucker��������������������������������������������������������69
Chapter 19 Marketing Strategy: Success of “Brand Modi” in
Parliament Elections 2014����������������������������������������������73
Chapter 20 Social Media per se Is Not Marketing Strategy: Please
Update My Facebook Status as “DEAD!”�����������������������77
Chapter 21 Pitch!: Rang De Basanti Screen Test��������������������������������81
Chapter 22 Financial Strategy: Two and a Half Men�������������������������85
Chapter 23 Crowd Sourcing: The Rise of AAP and Arvind
Kejriwal��������������������������������������������������������������������������89
Chapter 24 Staying Focused: The Interesting Case of AAP!���������������93
Chapter 25 Implementation Challenges: The Days after
Honeymoon�������������������������������������������������������������������97
Chapter 26 Pivot: The Curious Case of Tendulkar and Kumble�������101
Chapter 27 Beware of Startup Myths: Running away with the
Passbook Vending Machine instead of the ATM! ���������105
Chapter 28 Hedging the Risk: Take a Bus Home after Getting
Drunk!��������������������������������������������������������������������������109
Chapter 29 Social Entrepreneurship: The Case of Anna Hazare�������113
Chapter 30 Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: The Medici Family of
Florence and European Renaissance������������������������������117
 Contents xv

Epilogue���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������121
Annexure I : Startup Workbook�����������������������������������������������������������123
Annexure II: Select Free Resources for More on Startups�������������������������127
References�������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������129
About the Author��������������������������������������������������������������������������������131
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Gen. Char. Body stout, broad; bill large; a crest of two or three much elongated
linear feathers, springing from the middle of the vertex; tail short, broad, scarcely
more than half the wing, rounded, the longest feathers not much exceeding the
coverts. Legs developed, the claws extending beyond the tip of the tail; the lateral
toes short, the outer claw falling considerably short of the base of the middle. Very
similar to Ortyx, except in the crest. Sexes similar.

Oreortyx pictus, Baird.

PLUMED PARTRIDGE; MOUNTAIN QUAIL.

Ortyx picta, Douglas, Trans. Linn. Soc. XVI, 1829, 143. Callipepla picta, Gould,
Mon. Odont. pl. xv.—Newberry, Rep. P. R. R. VI, iv, 1857, 93.—Heerm. X, s. 61.
Ortyx plumifera, Gould, Pr. Zoöl. Soc. V, 1837, 42.—Aud. Syn. 1839, 200.—Ib.
Birds Amer. V. 1842, 69, pl. ccxci. Perdix plumifera, Aud. Orn. Biog. V, 1839,
220, pl. ccccxxii. Lophortyx plumifera, Nuttall, Man. I, (2d ed.,) 1840, 791.
Oreortyx pictus, Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 642.—Cooper & Suckley, 225.—
Cooper, Orn. Cal. I, 1870, 546.
Sp. Char. Head with a crest of two straight feathers, much longer than the bill and
head. Anterior half of the body grayish-plumbeous; the upper parts generally
olivaceous-brown with a slight shade of rufous, this extending narrowly along the
nape to the crest. Head beneath the eyes and throat orange-chestnut, bordered
along the orbits and a short distance behind by black, bounded anteriorly and
superiorly by white, of which color is a short line behind the eye. Posterior half of
the body beneath white; a large central patch anteriorly (bifurcating behind), with
the flanks and tibial feathers, orange chestnut-brown; the sides of body showing
black and white bands, the former color tinged with chestnut. Under tail-coverts
black, streaked with orange-chestnut. Upper tertials margined internally with
whitish. Female differing only in slightly shorter crest. Length, 10.50; wing, 5.00;
tail, 3.25. Juv. Body, generally, pale brown, the feathers of the upper parts
minutely barred with darker, and with medial shaft-streaks of blackish; lower
plumage plain brown. Breast clear ashy, presenting a well-defined area. Head pale
brown, similar to, but lighter than, the body, with a conspicuous vertical and
lateral (auricular) broad stripe of dark umber-brown. Feathers of the flanks
blackish, broadly bordered with dingy whitish. A short truncated tuft of hair-like
feathers on the crown. (Described from figures in Grayson’s plate.)
Hab. Mountain-ranges of California and Oregon towards the coast. Nevada (eastern
slope and foot-hills of the Sierra Nevada; Ridgway).
 3935 ♂
Oreortyx pictus.

There are two quite different races of this species, but which,
however, pass gradually into each other, and must be considered as
merely the extremes of one species. They may be defined as
follows:—
1. Var. pictus. Pure ash confined to the pectoral region; the russet-
brown or rusty-olivaceous of the upper parts covering whole neck
and crown; forehead entirely ashy. ♂. Wing, 5.25; tarsus shorter
than middle toe (1.27; middle toe, 1.30). Hab. Washington
Territory, Oregon, and upper coast region of California.
2. Var. plumiferus. Pure ash covering whole pectoral region, and
crown, nape, and upper part of back; the grayish-olivaceous
above confined to the posterior parts. Forehead distinctly whitish.
Wing, 5.25; tarsus longer than middle toe (1.27; middle toe,
1.25). Hab. Sierra Nevada, and Southern California to Cape St.
Lucas.
Habits. The Mountain Quail of California is said by Dr. Newberry to be
similar in some respects to the common Partridge of Europe. It is
nowhere very common, but occurs sparingly throughout the entire
length of California and Oregon to at least the Columbia, and
probably beyond it, having much the same range with the
californicus, though everywhere a rarer bird, and always confined to
the hills and mountains. Its habits are similar to those of the other
species of this family, but it is less gregarious, and is more shy. It is
usually found in the chaparral, where it is put up with difficulty, as it
seeks safety by running on the ground rather than by flight. On the
first of August, at the base of Lassen’s Butte, Dr. Newberry found a
solitary hen with a brood of very young chicks. The brood scattered
like young Partridges, uttering a piping note like that of young
chickens, and when all was still again were recalled by the mother
with a cluck, much like the call of the common Hen. The party
frequently saw coveys and broods of these birds, the young of which
were about half grown, until they reached the plains of Pit River.
None were seen in the Klamath Lake basin, the country being too
bare and flat. They were again met with among the hills bordering
the Willamette Valley, and were found from the Columbia, almost
uninterruptedly through the Siskiyou, Calapooza, and Trinity
Mountains to California. They are favorite pets with the miners, by
whom they are frequently kept in confinement, and not unfrequently
command a high price. Their flesh is said to be white and excellent,
and fully equal to that of any of the family.
 Oreortyx pictus.

According to Dr. Cooper, this Quail is very rare in Washington

Territory, a few small coveys having been met with about Vancouver,
as he was informed by the officers in the garrison. He never
succeeded in finding any, though he hunted for them several times
with a dog. They became quite common south of the Columbia,
towards the prairies of the Willamette. He inquired especially for
them in other parts of the Territory, but never heard of them. In
California, south of San Francisco, this bird is said to be a rare
curiosity to the market-hunters, one or two sometimes occurring
among flocks of the California Quail. It is known to them as the
Mountain Quail. Dr. Suckley states that the birds in the Willamette
Valley were introduced there, and that they are now multiplying
rapidly upon the prairies back of Fort Vancouver. With a very little
care it is thought the whole of the Territory may become well
stocked with them, as the absence of foxes west of the Cascade
Mountains and the mild open winters are favorable for their increase.
Dr. Heermann found the birds of this species wild and difficult to
procure, flying and scattering at the least symptom of danger, and
again calling each other together with a note expressive of great
solicitude, much resembling that of a Hen-Turkey gathering her
brood around her. During the survey he observed these birds only
once, and then but for a few minutes, as they were passing through
a deep cañon leading down to Elizabeth Lake. They were seen by
the hunters on the mountains surrounding Tejon Valley; but though
he went several times in search of them, he obtained none.
Mr. Ridgway met with the Mountain Quail on the foot-hills of the
Sierra Nevada, in the vicinity of Genoa and Carson City, and also in
the mountain-ranges lying immediately to the eastward of the Sierra.
It was quite rare and very difficult to discover, and when found was
generally met with accidentally. He obtained it in November in the
thick chaparral at the eastern base of the Sierra Nevada. In May he
secured a pair in the cedar woods a little to the eastward of Carson
City, and in December a flock was met with on the Comstock
Mountains near Pyramid Lake. Its call-note when a flock is scattered
is almost exactly like that of a Hen-Turkey, only proportionally
weaker. When a flock is startled, they utter a confused chuckling
note, something like that of the common eastern Quail. The male
has a very pleasant crowing-note, which sounds some like koo-koo-
koóe. The settlers in Nevada say that, previous to the settlement of
that country by the whites, this Quail was not found east of the
Sierra Nevada, and affirm that they followed the wagon-roads over
the mountains, in the rear of trains and wagons, for the purpose of
picking up the grain scattered along the road. Mr. Ridgway does not
give full credit to the truth of these statements, as he was informed
by the Indians at Pyramid Lake, that, within the memory of the
oldest members of their tribe, it had always been found in that
vicinity.
An egg of this species taken by Dr. Canfield, near Monterey,
California, measures 1.45 inches in length by 1.10 in breadth. It is
oval in shape; one end is considerably more pointed than the other.
It is of a very rich cream-color, with a reddish shading, and
unspotted.

9390 ♂
Lophortyx californicus.

Genus LOPHORTYX, Bonaparte.

Lophortyx, Bonap. Geog. & Comp. List, 1838. (Type, Tetrao californicus, Shaw.)
Gen. Char. Head with a crest of lengthened feathers springing from the vertex, the
shafts in the same vertical plane, and the webs roof-shaped and overlapping each
other; the number varies from two to six or more; they widen to the tip, where
they are slightly recurved. Tail lengthened and graduated, nearly as long as the
wing, composed of twelve stiff feathers. Wings with the tertials not as long as the
primaries; the coverts without any unusual development. Claws rather short; the
lateral reaching to, but scarcely beyond the base of the middle; the outstretched
toe not reaching the tip of the tail. Sexes very different.

The two North American species of the genus have the anterior half
of the body, and the upper parts generally, plumbeous; the feathers
of neck above, and on the sides, pointed and margined with black.
There is a white bar across the head above, between the eyes,
which, passing backwards, is bordered behind and internally by
black; a second commences at the posterior border of the eye, and
then borders the black of the chin and throat laterally and behind,
the black reaching up to the eye and bordered anteriorly by a white
line from eye to bill; belly pale buff, with a large spot in the centre;
the flanks streaked with white. The diagnoses of the species are as
follows:—
Vertex and occiput light smoky olive-brown; forehead whitish;
patch in the middle of the belly orange-chestnut; feathers of
breast with narrow black edges; sides of body olivaceous-
plumbeous … L. californicus.
Vertex and occiput clear chestnut-brown; forehead blackish; patch
in middle of belly black; none of the belly-feathers with black
edges; sides of body bright chestnut … L. gambeli.

PLATE LXIV.
 1. Lophortyx californicus. ♂ Cal., 93090.
2. Lophortyx californicus. ♀ Cal., 3936.
3. Cyrtonyx massena. ♂ Texas, 10258.
4. Lophortyx gambelli. ♂ Ariz., 9378.
5. Lophortyx gambelli. ♀ Ariz., 9361.
6. Cyrtonyx massena. ♀ Texas, 10256.

Lophortyx californicus, Bonap.

CALIFORNIA QUAIL.

Tetrao californicus, Shaw, Nat. Misc. pl. cccxlv (prior to 1801). Perdix californica,
Latham, Suppl. Ind. Orn. II, App. 1801, p. lxii.—Aud. Orn. Biog. V. 1839, 152, pl.
ccccxiii.—Hutchings, Cal. Mag. II, 1857, 24 (woodcut of bird and its eggs).
Ortyx californica, Stephens in Shaw’s Zool. XI, 1819, 384.—Jardine, Game Birds,
Nat. Libr. IV, 104, pl. xi.—Cuv. R. An. Illust. ed. Oiseaux, pl. lxiv.—Bennett,
Gardens & Menag. Zoöl. Soc. II, 29 (woodcut).—Aud. Syn. 1839, 199.—Ib.
Birds Amer. V, 1842, 67, pl. ccxc. Perdix (Ortyx) californica, Bonap. Syn. 1828,
125. Lophortyx californica, Bonap. List, 1838.—Nuttall, Man. I, (2d ed.,) 1840,
789.—Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 644.—Gray, Cat. Brit. Mus. V, 1867, 78.—Cooper
& Suckley, 226 (to Columbia River).—Cooper, Orn. Cal. I, 1870, 549. Callipepla
californica, Gould, Mon. Odont. pl. xvi.—Reichenbach, Av. Syst. 1850, pl. xxvii.—
Newberry, Rep. P. R. R. VI, iv, 1857, 92.
 Lophortyx californicus.

Sp. Char. Crest black. Anterior half of body and upper parts plumbeous; the wings
and back glossed with olive-brown. Anterior half of head above brownish-yellow,
the shafts of the stiff feathers black; behind this is a white transverse band which
passes back along the side of the crown; within this white, anteriorly and laterally,
is a black suffusion. The vertex and occiput are light brown. Chin and throat black,
margined laterally and behind by a white band, beginning behind the eye. Belly
pale buff anteriorly (an orange-brown rounded patch in the middle) and white
laterally, the feathers all margined abruptly with black. The feathers on the sides
of body like the back, streaked centrally with white. Feathers of top and sides of
neck with the margins and shafts black. Under tail-coverts buff, broadly streaked
centrally with brown.
Female similar, without the white and black of the head; the feathers of the throat
brownish-yellow, streaked with brown. The buff and orange-brown of the belly
wanting. The crest short. Length, 9.50; wing, 4.32; tail, 4.12.
Young. Head as in the adult female. Upper parts pale brown, finely mottled
transversely with black; scapulars and feathers of the back with yellowish-white
shaft-streaks, widening at the end of the feather, and with a large black spot on
each web.
Chick. Ground-color dingy white, tinged on the head, wings, and upper parts with
pale rusty. A broad stripe on occiput and nape umber-brown; upper parts with
rather confused and rather elongated mottlings; an indistinct auricular spot.
Beneath plain dull white.
Hab. Valley portions and foot-hills of the Pacific Province of the United States,
south to Cape St. Lucas.

Habits. This beautiful species, according to Dr. Newberry, is called the

Valley Quail in California, to distinguish it from the Plumed Quail,
which inhabits the hills and the highlands, and is called the Mountain
Quail. The common Valley Quail of California inhabits the prairies
and the grain-fields of the cultivated districts, and frequents the
thickets which border the streams, usually in coveys of from a dozen
to a hundred individuals, except during the breeding-season, when it
is found only in pairs. Like the eastern Quail, the male bird is very
fond of sitting on some stump or log projecting above the grass and
weeds which conceal his mate and nest or brood, and, especially in
the early morning, uttering his peculiar cry,—whistle it can hardly be
called. This note is spoken of as being rather harsh and disagreeable
than otherwise, and somewhat resembling that of some of the
Woodpeckers. Dr. Newberry adds that it may be represented by the
syllables kûck-kûck-kûck-kā, the first three notes being rapidly
repeated, the last prolonged with a falling inflection. As a game bird
he regards this Quail as inferior to the eastern one, though of equal
excellence for the table. It does not lie so well to the dog, does not
afford as good sport, and takes to a tree much more readily than the
eastern Quail. It is found in all the valleys of California and Oregon,
both those in the interior and those that open on the coast. It is not
found in the deep forests, nor on the mountains at any considerable
elevation, nor in the interior basin where water and vegetation are
scarce. Specimens were taken by his party in different parts of the
Sacramento Valley, at Fort Jones, and in the Willamette Valley, near
the Columbia. In all these there was no appreciable difference. This
bird is said to make no elaborate nest, but to lay a large number of
eggs on the ground, which are generally hatched in June. This bird
is susceptible of domestication, and forms quite an ornament for
parks, in which they thrive with proper care.
Dr. Suckley states that this Quail was successfully introduced into
Washington Territory, on the prairies near Puget Sound, in the spring
of 1857, by Governor Charles H. Mason and Mr. Goldsborough. Two
lots were introduced, and by the following winter had increased
largely. Mr. Gibbs mentions having met with great numbers of these
birds on Russian River in 1851, and again on the Klamath in 1852.
They were very tame, but took to the bushes when disturbed,
perching on the limbs. Like the Sharp-tailed Grouse, they gathered
in large flocks. This was the case even when young, and it has been
thence inferred that several females belong to one male, and with
their broods all run together.
Dr. Kennerly states that his party first met with this beautiful
Partridge upon reaching the waters of the Mohave River, and during
the march up the stream he found it very abundant, as well as
among the settlements along the coast. He could perceive no
difference in its habits from those of Lophortyx gambeli.
Dr. Heermann states that he found the California Quail very
numerous as far south as Vallecita, where commences the desert
that extends to the Colorado, forming an apparently impassable
barrier between it and the closely allied species, Gambel’s Partridge.
When flushed from the ground, it invariably flies to the trees, if in a
wooded country, where it squats so closely lengthwise on a branch
that it can rarely be seen when thus hidden. It will not lie to a dog,
but runs until it is forced to fly. It may be readily tamed, and in
California is often domesticated with the poultry. Several years since,
according to Dr. Heermann, an attempt was made to introduce these
birds into Long Island, which at first promised to be successful; but
unfortunately, after the first season, they were all exterminated by
the gunners for the New York market.
Mr. Ridgway met with this species only on the west slope of the
Sierra Nevada, and at an altitude of not more than four or five
thousand feet. He had no opportunity to learn anything in regard to
its habits, but was enabled to listen to its notes. The call-note of the
male is very peculiar, and resembles somewhat the syllables kuck-
kuck-kēē, the accent being on the last syllable. The common note of
the male bird, when disturbed with its mate in the bushes, and
probably having a brood of young in the vicinity, was a sharp pit,
precisely like the common note of the Cardinal Grosbeak.
The nest of this bird is made in the open field, or at the foot of a
bush, and is composed of loose grasses arranged without much
care. The eggs are said to be twelve or sixteen in number, and are
yellowish or grayish white, spotted and dashed with dark brown or
burnt-umber.
Mr. Titian R. Peale, in his Notes on the Wilkes expedition, mentions
observing this species in the mountainous regions of Southern
Oregon, near the 43d degree of north latitude, which he regarded as
their farthest northern range. He frequently observed them
collecting at night to roost in trees. At such times their call-note was
plaintive, and had a slight resemblance to the words cut-cut-cut-me-
too. Specimens of this bird were taken alive, kept by members of the
expedition, and brought to the city of Washington by a route equal
to the circumference of the globe, where they produced one brood
of young.
Soda Lake, the “sink” of the Mohave River, the bed of which is
usually quite dry, except in spots, for many miles, is said by Dr.
Coues to be just where this species and the L. gambeli find a neutral
ground, the western bird following the watercourses until arrested
by the desert.
Mr. Xantus found this Quail breeding in great abundance at Cape St.
Lucas. In one instance he found four eggs on the bare sand, under a
pile of driftwood, without any trace of a nest. In another, three eggs
were found on the bare ground, under a fallen cactus. In a third
case there were nine eggs, also laid on the bare ground, but in the
shade of a jasmine-bush. They were frequently found sheltered
under piles of driftwood.
The eggs of this Quail are subject to great variations in marking, and
also differ somewhat in size. They are sharply pointed at one end
and rounded at the other. One egg, measuring 1.30 in length by
1.00 in breadth, has a ground-color of a creamy white, freckled with
markings of a uniform shading of an olivaceous-drab. Another,
measuring 1.22 by .91 inches, has the ground-color of the same, but
the markings are larger and more confluent, and their color is a
rusty drab. A third is 1.18 by .95 inches; ground-color a creamy
white marked by large scattered spots of a chestnut-brown.

Lophortyx gambeli, Gambel.

GAMBEL’S QUAIL.

Lophortyx gambeli, “Nuttall,” Gambel, P. A. N. S. Philad. I, 1843, 260.—McCall,

P. A. N. S. V, June, 1851, 221.—Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 645.—Ib. Mex. B. II,
Birds, 22.—Dresser, Ibis, 1866, 28(Rio Grande to Nueces; breeds).—Coues, P. A.
N. S. 1866, 94 (Fort Whipple, Arizona).—Ib. Ibis, 1866, 46 (habits).—Gray, Cat.
Brit. Mus. V, 1867, 79.—Heerm. P. R. R. R. X, C, 19.—Ib. X, S, 60.—Cooper, Orn.
Cal. I, 1870, 553. Callipepla gambeli, Gould, Mon. Odont. pl. xvii.—Cass. Illust.
I, ii, 1853, 45, pl. ix. Callipepla venusta, Gould, P. Z. S. XIV, 1846, 70.
Sp. Char. General color cinereous; abdomen plain whitish; inner or upper webs of
tertials broadly edged with white. Elongated feathers of the sides bright chestnut
with a medial streak of white.
Male. The ash on the breast of a bluish cast, and the whitish of the belly strongly
tinged with yellowish-buff, especially anteriorly; abdomen with a black patch.
Anterior half of the head, and whole throat, deep black, bordered posteriorly with
two broad, well-defined stripes of white,—the upper of these crossing the middle
of the vertex and running backward above the auriculars to the occiput; the other
beginning at the posterior angle of the eye and running downward. Vertex and
occiput bright rufous, bounded anteriorly and laterally with black. Crest of black
elongated, club-shaped, and considerably recurved feathers, springing from the
vertex just behind the black bar, one and a half inches long. Wing, 4.70; tail, 4.30;
bill, .50 long, and .25 deep; tarsus, 1.15; middle toe, 1.15.
Female. Head plain grayish, without white, black, or rufous; no black on abdomen,
which also lacks a decided buff tinge; the cinereous of breast without bluish cast.
Crest dusky, less than one inch long. Wing, 4.55; tail, 4.20.
Young. Upper parts ashy brown, minutely and indistinctly mottled transversely with
dusky; scapulars and wing-coverts with white shaft-streaks, the former with pairs
of dusky spots. Breast and sides with obsolete whitish bars on an ashy ground.
Chick. Dull sulphur-yellowish; a vertical patch, and two parallel stripes along each
side of the back (four altogether), black. (Described from Grayson’s plate.)
Hab. Colorado Valley of the United States; north to Southern Utah, and east to
Western Texas.
An adult male collected in Southern Utah by Mr. Henshaw of
Lieutenant Wheeler’s Expedition differs from all others which we
have seen, including a large series from the same locality, in having
the abdomen chiefly plumbeous, with a few cloudings of black, in
the place of a uniformly black patch. Except in this respect, however,
it does not differ at all from other adult male specimens.
Habits. Gambel’s Partridge was obtained by Dr. Kennerly, near San
Elizario, Texas, and on Colorado River, California, by Mr. A. Schott,
and also by Dr. Kennerly. It was not observed by Dr. Kennerly until
he reached the valley of the Rio Grande, nor did he meet with any
farther west, in any part of Mexico, than San Bernardino, in Sonora.
Though closely resembling in its habits the Scaly Partridge
(Callipepla squamata), and in some instances occupying the same
districts, he never found the two species together.
According to Mr. J. H. Clark, this species was not met with east of
the Rio Grande, nor farther south than Presidio del Norte. Unlike the
squamata, it is very common for this species to sit on the branches
of trees and bushes, particularly the male, where the latter is said to
utter the most sad and wailing notes. They are so very tame as to
come about the Mexican towns, the inhabitants of which, however,
never make any effort to capture them. They only inhabit wooded
and well-watered regions, and are said to feed indifferently on
insects or on berries; in summer they make the patches of Solanum
their home, feeding on its quite palatable fruit. When flushed, this
Quail always seeks the trees, and hides successfully among the
branches.
Dr. Kennerly found this beautiful species in great numbers during the
march of his party up the Rio Grande. Large flocks were continually
crossing the road before them, or were seen huddled together under
a bush. After passing the river he met with them again so
abundantly along Partridge Creek as to give rise to the name of that
stream. Thence to the Great Colorado he occasionally saw them, but
after leaving that river they were not again seen. They are said to
become quite tame and half domesticated where they are not
molested. When pursued, they can seldom be made to fly,
depending more upon their feet as a mode of escape than upon
their wings. They run very rapidly, but seldom, if ever, hide, and
remain close in the grass or bushes in the manner of the eastern
Quail.
From Fort Yuma, on the Colorado River, to Eagle Springs, between El
Paso and San Antonio, where he last saw a flock of these birds, Dr.
Heermann states he found them more or less abundant whenever
the party followed the course of the Gila, or met with water-holes or
streams of any kind. Although they frequent the most arid portions
of the country, where they find a scanty subsistence of grass-seed,
mesquite leaves, and insects, they yet manifest a marked preference
for the habitations of man, and were much more numerous in the
cultivated fields of Tucson, Mesilla Valley, and El Paso. Towards
evening, in the vicinity of the Mexican villages, the loud call-notes of
the male birds may be heard, gathering the scattered members of
the flocks, previous to issuing from the cover where they have been
concealed during the day. Resorting to the trails and the roads in
search of subsistence, while thus engaged they utter a low soft note
which keeps the flock together. They are not of a wild nature, often
permit a near approach, seldom fly unless suddenly flushed, and
seem to prefer to escape from danger by retreating to dense
thickets. In another report Dr. Heermann mentions finding this
species in California on the Mohave desert, at the point where the
river empties into a large salt lake forming its terminus. The flock
was wild, and could not be approached. Afterwards he observed
them on the Big Lagoon of New River. At Fort Yuma they were quite
abundant, congregating in large coveys, frequenting the thick
underwood in the vicinity of the mesquite-trees. Their stomachs
were found to be filled with the seeds of the mesquite, a few grass-
seeds, and the berries of a parasitic plant. On being suddenly
flushed these birds separate very widely, but immediately upon
alighting commence their call-note, resembling the soft chirp of a
young chicken, which is kept up for some time. The alarm over, and
the flock once more reunited, they relapse into silence, only broken
by an occasional cluck of the male bird. Once scattered they cannot
be readily started again, as they lie close in their thick, bushy, and
impenetrable coverts. Near Fort Yuma the Indians catch them in
snares, and bring them in great numbers for sale.
Dr. Samuel W. Woodhouse first met with this species on the Rio
Grande, about fifty miles below El Paso, up to which place it was
extremely abundant. It was by no means a shy bird, frequently
coming about the houses; and he very often observed the males
perched on the top of a high bush, uttering their peculiarly mournful
calls. He found it in quite large flocks, feeding principally on seeds
and berries. It became scarce as he approached Doña Ana, above
which place he did not meet with it again. He again encountered it,
however, near the head of Bill Williams River, and afterwards on the
Tampia Creek, and it was exceedingly abundant all along the Great
Colorado. He was informed that they are never found west of the
Coast Range, in California. About Camp Yuma, below the mouth of
the Gila River, they were very abundant and very tame, coming quite
near the men, and picking up the grain wasted by the mules. They
are trapped in great numbers by the Indians.
This Quail is given by Mr. Dresser as occurring in Texas, but not as a
common bird, and only found in certain localities. At Muddy Creek,
near Fort Clark, they were not uncommon, and were also found near
the Nueces River.
Dr. Coues (Ibis, 1866), in a monograph upon this species, describes
its carriage upon the ground as being firm and erect, and at the
same time light and easy, and with colors no less pleasing than its
form. He found them to be exceedingly abundant in Arizona, and
soon after his arrival in the Territory he came upon a brood that was
just out of the egg. They were, however, so active, and hid
themselves so dexterously, that he could not catch one. This was
late in July, and throughout the following month he met broods only
a few days old. The following spring he found the old birds mated by
April 25, and met with the first chick on the first of June. He infers
that this species is in incubation during the whole of May, June, July,
and a part of August, and that they raise two, and even three,
broods in a season.
A single brood sometimes embraces from fifteen to twenty young,
which by October are nearly as large as their parents. While under
the care of the latter they keep very close together, and when
alarmed either run away rapidly or squat so closely as to be difficult
to flush, and, when forced up, they soon alight again. They often
take to low limbs of trees, huddle closely together, and permit a
close approach. The first intimation that a bevy is near is a single
note repeated two or three times, followed by the rustling of leaves
as the flock start to run.
These birds are said to be found in almost every locality except thick
pine-woods without undergrowth, and are particularly fond of thick
willow copses, heavy chaparral, and briery undergrowth. They prefer
seeds and fruit, but insects also form a large part of their food. In
the early spring they feed extensively on the tender fresh buds of
young willows, which give to their flesh a bitter taste.
This Quail is said to have three distinct notes,—the common cry
uttered on all occasions of alarm or to call the bevy together, which
is a single mellow clear “chink,” with a metallic resonance, repeated
an indefinite number of times; then a clear, loud, energetic whistle,
resembling the syllables killink-killink, chiefly heard during the
pairing-season, and is analogous to the bob-white of the common
Quail; the third is its love-song, than which, Dr. Coues adds, nothing
more unmusical can well be imagined. It is uttered by the male, and
only when the female is incubating. This song is poured forth both at
sunrise and at sunset, from some topmost twig near the spot where
his mate is sitting on her treasures; and with outstretched neck,
drooping wings, and plume negligently dangling, he gives utterance
to his odd, guttural, energetic notes.
The flight of these birds is exceedingly rapid and vigorous, and is
always even and direct, and in shooting only requires a quick hand
and eye.
In his journey from Arizona to the Pacific, Dr. Coues found these
birds singularly abundant along the valley of the Colorado; and he
was again struck with its indifference as to its place of residence,
being equally at home in scorched mesquite thickets, dusting itself in
sand that would blister the naked feet, the thermometer at 117°
Fah. in the shade, and in the mountains of Northern Arizona, when
the pine boughs were bending under the weight of the snow. He
also states that Dr. Cooper, while at Fort Mohave, brought up some
young Gambel’s Quails by placing the eggs under a common Hen,
and found no difficulty in domesticating them, so that they
associated freely with the barnyard fowls. The eggs, he adds, are
white, or yellowish-white, with brown spots, and were hatched out in
twenty-four days. The nest is said to be a rather rude structure,
about eight inches wide, and is usually hidden in the grass. The eggs
number from twelve to seventeen.
Captain S. G. French, quoted by Mr. Cassin, writes that he met with
this species on the Rio Grande, seventy miles below El Paso, and
from that point to the place named their numbers constantly
increased. They appeared to be partial to the abodes of man, and
were very numerous about the old and decayed buildings, gardens,
fields, and vineyards around Presidio, Isoleta, and El Paso. During
his stay there in the summer of 1851, every morning and evening
their welcome call was heard all around; and at early and late hours
they were constantly to be found in the sandy roads and paths near
the villages and farms. In the middle of the hot summer days,
however, they rested in the sand, under the shade and protection of
the thick chaparral. When disturbed, they glided through the bushes
very swiftly, seldom resorting to flight, uttering a peculiar chirping
note. The parents would utter the same chirping cry whenever an
attempt was made to capture their young. The male and female bird
were always found with the young, showing much affection for
them, and even endeavoring to attract attention away from them by
their actions and cries.
Colonel McCall (Proc. Phil. Ac., June, 1851) also gives an account of
this bird, as met with by him in Western Texas, between San Antonio
and the Rio Grande River, as well as in New Mexico. He did not fall in
with it until he had reached the Limpia River, a hundred miles west
of the Pecos, in Texas, where the Acacia glandulosa was more or
less common, and the mesquite grasses and other plants bearing
nutritious seeds were abundant. There they were very numerous
and very fat, and much disposed to seek the farms and cultivate the
acquaintance of man. About the rancho of Mr. White, near El Paso,
he found them very numerous, and, in flocks of fifty or a hundred,
resorting morning and evening to the barnyard, feeding around the
grain-stacks in company with the poultry, and receiving their portion
from the hand of the owner. He found them distributed through the
country from the Limpia to the Rio Grande, and along the latter river
from Eagle Spring Pass to Doña Ana.
The same careful observer, in a communication to Mr. Cassin, gives
the western limit of this species. He thinks it is confined to a narrow
belt of country between the 31st and 34th parallels of latitude, from
the Pecos River, in Texas, to the Sierra Nevada and the contiguous
desert in California. It has not been found on the western side of
these mountains. Colonel McCall met with it at Alamo Mucho, forty-
four miles west of the Colorado River. West of this stretches a
desolate waste of sand,—a barrier which effectually separates this
species from its ally, the California Quail.
This species is known to be abundant in the country around the
sources of the Gila River, and has also been found along that river
from the Pimo villages to its mouth, and there is no doubt that it
inhabits the entire valley of the Gila. It was also common along the
Colorado River, as far as the mouth of the Gila, and has been met
with in that valley as high up as Tampia Creek, latitude 34°.
Colonel McCall regards this species as less wild and vigilant than the
California species. It is later in breeding, as coveys of young
California Quails were seen, one fourth grown, June 4, while all the
birds of Gambel’s were without their young as late as June 16. The
voice of the male at this season is described as strikingly rich and
full. The cry may be imitated by slowly pronouncing in a low tone
the syllables kaa-wale, kaa-wale. When the day is calm and still,
these notes may be heard to a surprising distance. This song is
continued, at short intervals, in the evening, for about an hour. Later
in the season when a covey is dispersed, the cry for reassembling is
said to resemble qua-el qua-el. The voice of this bird at all seasons
bears a great resemblance to that of the California Quail, but has no
resemblance to that of the eastern Ortyx virginiana. In their crops
were found the leaves of the mesquite, coleopterous insects, wild
gooseberries, etc.
An egg of this species, taken by Dr. Palmer at Camp Grant, measures
1.25 inches in length by 1.00 in breadth. The ground-color is a
cream white, beautifully marked with ragged spots of a deep
chestnut. In shape it closely corresponds with the egg of the
California Partridge.

Genus CALLIPEPLA, Wagler.

Callipepla, Wagler, Isis, 1832. (Type, Ortyx squamata, Vig.)

Gen. Char. Head with a broad, short, depressed tufted crest of soft, thick feathers
springing from the vertex. Other character, as in Lophortyx. Sexes similar.

The single United States species is of a bluish tint, without any

marked contrast of color. The feathers of the neck, breast, and belly
have a narrow edging of black.

Callipepla squamata, Gray.

SCALED OR BLUE PARTRIDGE.

Ortyx squamatus, Vigors, Zoöl. Journ. V, 1830, 275.—Abert, Pr. A. N. Sc. III, 1847,
221. Callipepla squamata, Gray, Gen. III, 1846, 514.—M’Call, Pr. A. N. Sc. V,
1851, 222.—Cassin, Ill. I, v, 1854, 129; pl. xix.—Gould, Mon. Odont. pl. xix.—
Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 646.—Ib. Mex. B. II, Birds, 23.—Gray, Cat. Brit. Mus.
V, 1867, 78.—Heerm. X, C, 19.—Coop. Orn. Cal. I, 1870, 556. Callipepla strenua,
 Wagler, Isis, XXV, 1832, 278. Tetrao cristata, De la Llave, Registro trimestre, I,
1832, 144.
Sp. Char. Head with a full, broad, flattened crest of soft elongated feathers.
Prevailing color plumbeous-gray, with a fine bluish cast on jugulum and nape,
whitish on the belly, the central portion of which is more or less tinged with
brownish; sometimes a conspicuous abdominal patch of dark rusty, the exposed
surface of the wings tinged with light yellowish-brown, and very finely and almost
imperceptibly mottled. Head and throat without markings, light grayish-
plumbeous; throat tinged with yellowish-brown. Feathers of neck, upper part of
back, and under parts generally, except on the sides and behind, with a narrow
but well-defined margin of blackish, producing the effect of imbricated scales.
Feathers on the sides streaked centrally with white. Inner edge of inner tertials,
and tips of long feathers of the crest, whitish. Crissum rusty-white, streaked with
rusty. Female similar. Length, 9.50; wing, 4.80; tail, 4.10.
Hab. Table-lands of Mexico and valley of Rio Grande of Texas. Most abundant on
the high broken table-lands and mesquite plains.

9386 ♂
Callipepla squamata.

Habits. This bird was first described as a Mexican species in 1830 by

Mr. Vigors. For a long while it has been an extremely rare species in
collections, and its history, habits, and distribution remained
unknown until the explorations of the naturalists made in the
surveys under the direction of the national government. It was first
noticed within the territory of the United States by Lieutenant Abert,
Topographical Engineer, who, in his Report of the examination of
New Mexico, furnishes several notes in relation to this species. In
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