90 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Lophortyx calif oraica plumbea Grinnell. San Quintin Quail. [294c.] 



Lophortyx californica phnnbea Grinnell, Condor, XXVIII, No. 3, May 

 15, 1926, 128. (San Jose, 2500 ft. altitude, 45 miles northeast of San 

 Quintin, Lower California, Mexico.) 



Range. — Northwestern Lower California between lat. 30° and lat. 32° and 

 from the Pacific coast east to the eastern base of the Sierra San Pedro Martir; 

 casually to San Felipe on the Gulf. 



Lophortyx californica achrustera Peters. San Lucas Quail. [294d.] 



Lophortyx californica achrustera Peters, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, 

 VIII, 79, May 16, 1923. (La Paz, Lower California.) 



Range. — Cape district of Lower California, north to lat. 30°. 



Lophortyx gambeli gambeli Gambel. Gambel's Quail. [295.] 



Lophortyx Gambelii "Nutt," Gambel, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., I, Nos. 

 24-25, March-April, 1843 [May 19], 260. (Some distance west [ = east] 

 of California = southern Nevada.) 



Range. — Lower Sonoran desert region of southern California, southern 

 Nevada, Arizona, and southwestern Utah, and also southwestern New 

 Mexico to the Rio Grande Valley and the El Paso region of extreme western 

 Texas south into the northeastern corner of Lower California and to Guaymas, 

 Sonora. 



Lophortyx gambeli sanus Mearns. Olathe Quail. [295a.] 



Lophortyx gambelii sanus Mearns, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXVII, No. 

 26, July 10, 1914, 113. (Olathe, Montrose Co., Colorado.) 



Range.— Southwestern Colorado. [Reported to be derived from L. g. 

 gambeli introduced many years ago.] 



Genus OREORTYX Baird. 



Oreortyx Baird, in Baird, Cassin, and Lawrence, Rep. Expl. and Surv. 

 R. R. Pac, IX, 1858, xxi, xlv, 638, 642. Type, by orig. desig., Ortyx 

 picta Douglas, 



Oreortyx picta palmeri Oberholser. Mountain Quail. [292.] 



Oreortyx picta palmeri Oberholser, Auk, XL, No. 1, Jan. 10, 1923, 84. 

 (Yaquina, Oregon.) 



Range. — Humid Transition Zone strip of the Pacific coast from southwest- 

 ern Washington south to Monterey County, California; introduced on Van- 

 couver Island. 



