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Adult female. — Similar to that of the nominate race but with shorter 

 wing, 98-102 (as opposed to 101-104) ; with the longest secondaries 

 reaching the tips of the primaries (in doiiglasii the primaries extend 

 15-20 mm, beyond the secondaries) in the closed wing; and generally 

 darker in color, the brown on the underparts noticeably darker — dark 

 olive-brown. 



Adult nuile.—Wmg 101-104 (102.6); tail 66-72 (68.6); culmen 

 from base 14-14.5 (14.1); tarsus 25-29 (27.8); middle toe without 

 claw 27-29 (28 mm.).^^ 



Adult fnnale.— Wing 98-102 (99.7) ; tail 65-67 (66.1) ; culmen from 

 base 13.8-14.3 (14); tarsus 27.5-29 (28.3); middle toe without claw 

 26^27 (26.3 mm.).»^ 



Range. — Northwestern Jalisco (Las Palmas; Las Peiias), possibly 

 to Colima. However, no specimens appear to have been taken yet in 

 Colima. This State is included in current accounts of the range of the 

 species on the sole basis of Grayson's statement that he "also found it 

 in the State of Jalisco and Colima, but not as far south as Tehuantepec" 

 (in Lawrence's paper, Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., ii, 1874, 306). 



Type locality. — Las Palmas, northwestern Jalisco. 



Callipepla elegans Beristain and Laurencio, Mem. y Rev. Soc. Cient. "Antonio 



Alzate,"vii, 1894, 219, part (Colima). 

 Lophortyx douglasi Ogilvie-Grant, Handb. Game Birds, ii, 1897, 126, part 



(Jalisco). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 293, part 



(Jalisco, Colima). 

 Lophortyx douglasii douglasii Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 46, part. — 



Hellmayr and Conover, Cat. Birds Amer., i. No. 1, 1942, 237, part. 

 Lophortyx douglasii teres Fkiedmann, Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., xxxiii, 1943, 



369 (Las Palmas, nw. Jalisco; descr. ; distr. ; crit. ; type in U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



LOPHORTYX DOUGLASII IMPEDITA Friedmann 



Nayarit Crested Quail 



y^Jw/^— Similar to the adult of the saine sex of typical douglasii and 

 of teres, combining the darker coloration of the latter with the wing tip 

 of the former ; in other words — a dark Douglas's quail with a noticeable 

 wing tip. 



Adult male.— Wing 105.4-110 (107.7); tail 70-77 (73.7); culmen 

 from base 14-15 (14.6); tarsus 29.5-34.7 (32.4); middle toe without 

 claw 27-30 (28.8 mm.).^^ 



Adult fern-ale. — Wing 100.5; tail 68; culmen from the base 13.5; tar- 

 sus 33; middle toe without claw 28 mm. (1 specimen). 



Range. — Known only from Nayarit. 



Type locality. — San Bias, Tepic, Nayarit. 



'• Five specimens including the type. 



^ Three specimens. 



*' Six specimens, including the type. 



