Body Temperatures in California and Gambel's Quail
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Tm• paucity of data on the body temperatures of small gallinaceous birds prompts us to report miscellaneous observations which we have made over the past several years on the body temperatures of the California Quail, Lophortyx californicus, a common resident in grassland and chaparral from southern Oregon to southern Baja Cal/fornia, and the Gambel's Quail, L. œambelii, a resident in the desert regions of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. The habitats of both
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