ORDER GALLIFORMES. 91 



Oreortyx picta picta (Douglas). Plumed Quail. [292a.] 



Ortyx -picta Douglas, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., XVI, Pt. i, 1829, 143 (read 

 Dec. 16, 1828). (Interior of California as far as 45° N.) 



Range. — Transition Zone from the west side of Cascade Range in north- 

 western Oregon south through the Sierra Nevada and inner Coast ranges of 

 California nearly to the Mexican line, and east in the desert ranges to extreme 

 western Nevada. 



Oreortyx picta confinis Anthony. San Pedro Quail. [2926.] 



Oreortyx pidus confinis Anthony, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., II, 74, 

 Oct. 11, 1889. (San Pedro Martir [Mountains, at 8500 feet]. Lower 

 California.) 



Range. — Chiefly in the Transition Zone of the Sierra Judrez and Sierra San 

 Pedro Martir, Lower California. ' 



Genus CYRTONYX Gould. 



Cyrtonyx Gould, Monogr. Odontoph., Pt. I, 1844, pi. vii and text (also 

 introd., 14, 1850). Type, by subs, desig., Ortyx massenn Lesson = 0. 

 montezximae Vigors (Gray, 1855). 



Cyrt6nyx monteztimae mearnsi Nelson, Mearns's Quail. [296.] 



Cyrtonyx montezumie mearnsi Nelson, Auk, XVII, No, 3, July, 1900, 255. 

 (Fort Huachuca, Arizona.) 



Range. — Arid Upper Austral and Transition zones from central Arizona 

 and central New Mexico east to central Texas and south to the mountains of 

 northern Coahuila, Chihuahua, and eastern Sonora. [Closely allied races 

 occur farther south in Mexico.] 



Family PHASIANIDAE. Pheasants. 



Genus PHASIANUS Linnaeus. 



Phasianus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 158. Type, by tautony- 

 my, Phasianus colchicus Linnaeus. {Phasianus cited in synonymy, cf. 

 Op. 16, Internat. Comm. Zool. Nomencl.) 



•• Phasianus cdlchicus torquatus Gmelin, Ring-necked Pheasant. [309,1.] 



Phasianus torquatus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. ii, 1789, 742. (No locality 

 mentioned = southeastern China.) 



Range. — Southeastern and eastern China from Canton to the middle 

 Yangtse. Introduced and acclimated in British Columbia and Ontario and in 



