Morn Quortyx picta plumifera December 201479. Mountain Quail were exceedingly abundant at Black Rock Spring 3000 ft. San Bernardino Co., 18 mi. N.E. of Whitewater Station, Riverside Co., California, and ranchero in the vicinity of the spring reported that approximately three hundred birds had been taken out the first twenty days of the fall season. When scattered the birds proved very difficult to find, and one had to actually kick them out of the bunches to get a fair shot at them. The wash bottoms leading down to the spring were heavily traveled by the quail, while the birds had come down early in the morning to drink at the spring. The surrounding hill-sides were covered with Pinyon, Joshua, and Juniper Trees, and back in among these trees the birds could be found during the warmer hours of the day.