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Lophortyx calif ornicus vallicola (Ridgw.). 

 Valley Partridge. 



Lophortyx californica (not Tetrao californicus Shaw) Baird, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 



Phila., 1859, 301 (Cape St. Lucas). Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V. 



1883, 544 (Cape Region), 547 (Pichalinque Bay). 

 Lophortyx californicus (not Tetrao californicus Shaw) Baird, /. c, 305 (Cape St. 



Lucas). Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Amer. Birds, IIL 1874, 



482, part (breeding at Cape St. Lucas). 

 Callipepla californica vallicola Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., II. 1889, 



276 (Cape Region; Piclialinque Bay). Townsend, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



XIIL 1890, 136 (Cape St. Lucas). Bendire, Life Hist. N. Amer Birds, pt. 



I. 1892, 29 (descr. eggs from Cape St. Lucas). 



The specimens collected by Mr. Frazar are slightl}' paler than my examples 

 from California, and their bills average a little heavier, but these differences are 

 neither well marked nor constant. 



The Valley Partridge is very common, and of course resident, throughout the 

 low country of the Cape Region. Mr. Frazar found it in the greatest numbers 

 at Triuufo and San Jose del Rancho. About La Paz it was not numerous, and 

 none were seen on the Sierra de la Laguna. The latter fact is somewhat re- 

 markable, for on San Pedro Martir, in the northern part of Lower California, 

 Mr. Anthony has met with large flocks at an altitude of 8,200 feet. i\Ir. 

 Bryant mentions a nest containing thirteen eggs found at Calmalli on April 

 13, 1889. The bird is apparently generally distributed over the entire Penin- 

 sula, excepting, as just stated, on the high mountains south of La Paz. It also 

 occurs in the interior of California, being replaced in the coast districts of that 

 State by the typical form, L. califorriicus. Mr. Ridgway informs me that he 

 was mistaken in stating (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V. 1883, 533) that the Plumed 

 Quail (Oreortyx pictus plumiferus) had been taken by Mr. Xantus at Cape St. 

 Lucas, and that he knows of no good evidence to show that it has ever occuiTed 

 in the Cape Region. 



Columba fasciata vioscae Brewst. 

 Viosca's Pigeon. 



Columba flavirostris Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 508, part (Cape St. Lucas). Cofes, 

 Check List, 1873, 73, no. 368, part. 



\^Cnlnmh(i] flavirostris CocES, Key N. Amer. Birds, 1872, 225, part (Cape St. Lucas). 



Columba fasciata (not of Say) Ridgway, Norn. N. Amer. Birds (Bull. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., no. 21), 1881, 40, no. 456, part; Proc. U. S Nat. Mus., V. 1883, 533, 

 footnote (Cape St. Lucas ; Miraflores). Codes, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, 91, 

 no. 539, part. Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VI. 18S3, 350 (Victoria 

 Mts.). A. 0. U., Check List, 1886, 178,. 179, no. 312, part. 



