PERDICIDyE — THE TAUTRIDGES. 



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bordered behind siiid iuteriuilly by black; a second commences at the pos- 

 terior border of the eye, and then Ixjrders tlio black of the chin and throat 

 laterally and bcliind, tlie lilack rfarhin;4 u|i to the eye and Inirdered anterinrly 

 by a white line iruni eye to bill ; belly pale bnlf, with a large spot in the 

 centre ; the llanks streaked with white. The diagnoses of the species are as 

 follows : — 



\'ei'tex and occiput light smoky olive-brown ; forehead whitish ; patch in 

 llio middle of the belly orange-chestnut ; feathers of breast, with narrow 

 black edges ; sides of body olivaceous-plumbeous . . . . L. mli/nrnicns. 



Vertex and occiput clear chestnut-brown ; forehead blackish ; patch in 

 middle of belly black ; none of the belly-feathers with black edges; sides 

 of body bright chestnut ... ..'... L. ijamheli. 



Lophortyx californicus, lioNAr. 



CALIFORNIA QUAIL. 



Tctrao californicus, SiiAW, Nat. Misc. pi. ccc xlv (prior to LSlll). Pcrdix californica, 

 L.\Tii.\M, Suppl. liul. Orn. II, App. 1801, ]>. Ixii. — Arn. Orn. Biog, V. 1839, 152, 

 pi. ccccxiii. — UuTCHlXG.s, Cal. Mag. II, 1857, 24 {woodcut of bird and its egfjs). 

 Orlyx caK/ornica, Stei'iie.ss in Shaw'.s Zool. XI, 1819, 384. — .I.vuniNK, Game Birds, 

 Nat. Libr. IV, 104, pi. .\i. — Crv. R. An. lUust. ed. Oiseaux, pi. Ixiv. — Bknnktt, 

 Gavden.s & Menag. Zool. So.-. II, 29 (woodcut). — Am. Syn. 1839, 199. — lb. Birds 

 Amer. V, 1842, 67, pi. ccxc. Perdix (Ortyx) californica, Bon.\p. Syn. 1828, 125. 

 Lophm-tyx californica, BoNAP. List, 1838. — Niittall, Man. I, (2d mI.,) 1840, 789. — 

 Baiud, Birds N. Am. IS.iS, 644. — Gray, Cat. Brit. Mus. V, 1867, 78. —Cooper & 

 SucKi.KY, 226 (to Columbia River). — Cooper, Orn. Cal. I, 1870, 549. Callipepla 

 californica, Goui.n, Mon. Odoiit. pi. xvi. — RmcniCNnAcn, Av. Syst. 1S50, jil. xxvii. 

 — Newberry, Kep. 1>. K. 1!. VI, iv, 1857, 92. 



Sp. Char. Crest black. Anterior IkiU'oI' liody nml upper jiarts ])lumbeous ; the wings 

 and back glossed with olive-brown. Anterior lialf of head above brownish-yellow, the 

 shafts of the stiff feathers black; behind 

 this is a white transverse band winch 

 passes back along the side of the crown ; 

 within this white, anteriorly and laterally, 

 is a black sntl'nsion. Thi- vertex and 

 occiput are light brown. Chin ami 

 tliroat black, margined laterally and 

 behind by a white band, beginning 

 behind the eye. Belly pale buff an- 

 teriorly (an orange-brown rounded 

 patch in the middle) and white laterally, 

 the feathers all margined abruptly with 

 black. The feathers on the sides of 

 body like the back, streaked centrally 

 with white. Feathers of top and sides 

 of neck with the margins and shafts 

 black. Under tail-coverts bufl', broadly 

 streaked centrally with brown. 



Female similar, without tlie white and Idack of the liead ; the feathers of the throat 

 brownish-yellow, streaked with brown. The buff and orange-brown of the belly want- 

 ing. The crest short. Length, 9..50 ; wing, 4..'52 ; tail, 4.12. 



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