A male MEARNS QUAIL looking directly at an observer suggests the head of a little feathered bulldog. The fierce expression is in no way indicative of the bird's true character for they are gentle, confiding and tame. In some localities they exhibit so little fear of man that they sometimes are destroyed by a stick or stone. They seem to deserve the name of "Fool Hen" and their lack of wariness accounts for their scarcity. The birds found within our borders are wanderers from their proper Mexican habitat and little is known of their mannerisms.
NEST: on ground; rather well built for a Quail, with entrance partially arched and concealed.
EGGS: 8 to 12. White.
Arid regions of central Arizona and New Mexico. East to Central Texas.