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Lophortyx douglasi Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxii, 1893, 404, part (San 

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

 (San Bias). — Bailey, Auk, xxiii, 1906, 384 (San Bias, Tepic). 



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 impcdita Friedmann, Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., xxxiii, 

 1943, 369 (San Bias, Tepic, Nayarit; descr. ; distr. ; crit. ; type in U. S. Nat. 

 Mus.). 



LOPHORTYX DOUGLASII LANGUENS Friedmann 



Chihuahua Crested Quail 



Adult male. — Like that of the nominate race but with the gray of the 

 breast less pure gray, Hghtly washed with brownish, most of the feathers 

 with indistinct pure ruf escent medioterminal spots ; the pale spots on 

 the abdomen slightly huffier, and the pale huffy area on the lower median 

 part of the abdomen more extensive; wing 110-111; tail 77.5-79; cul- 

 men from the base 15.5-15.8; tarsus 29-30; middle toe without claw 

 28.5-29.5 mm. (2 specimens, including the type). 



Other plumages apparently unknown. 



Range. — Known only from the type locality — Trompa, or La Trompa, 

 western Chihuahua. 



Lophortyx douglasii languens Friedmann, Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., xxxiii, 

 1943, 370 (Trompa, Chihuahua; descr.; distr.; crit., type in Mus. Comp. Zool.). 



Genus COLINUS Goldfuss 



Ortyx (not of Oken, 1816) Stephens, in Shaw, Gen. Zool., xi, pt. 2, 1819, 376. (Type, 



as designated by Gray, 1840, Perdix borealis Temminck = Tctrao virginianus 



Linnaeus.) 

 Ortix (emendation) D'Orbigny, in La Sagra, Hist. Fis. Pol. y Nat. Cuba, iii, Aves, 



1839, 10. 

 Ortygia (not Ortygis Illiger, 1811) Boie, Isis, 1826, 978. (Type, by monotypy, 



"Perdix virgviiana Lath. Wils., pi. 47, fig. 2 u.s.w."). 

 Colinus Goldfuss, Handb. Zool., ii, 1820, 220. (Type, by monotypy, Tetrao mexicanus 



Linnaeus [ = T. virginianus Linnaeus ?].) 

 Colinia (emendation ?) Nuttall, Man. Orn. United States and Canada, Land Birds, 



1832, 646. (New name for Ortyx Stephens.) 

 Colina (emendation) Wood, Orn. Guide [1837], 217. 

 Gnathodon Streubel, in Ersch and Gruber, Allg. Encycl., sect. 3, xvi, 1842, 283, 



290. (Type, by original designation, Perdi.v niarilandica Latham = Tetrao vir- 

 ginianus Linnaeus.) 

 Philortix (not Philortyx Gould, 1845) Des Murs, in Chenu, Encycl. Hist. Nat. 



Ois., vi, 1854, 147. 

 Eupsychortyx Gould, Monogr. Odontoph., pt. i, 1844, pi. 10. (Type, as fixed by 



Reichenbach, 1850, Tetrao cristatus Linnaeus.) 

 Eupsychortix (emendation) Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xxxviii, 1854, 663. 

 Eupsichortyx (emendation) Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xlii, 1856, 954. 

 Eupsycortyx (emendation) Sclater, Guide to Gardens Zool. Soc. London, ed. 23, 



1870, 7. 

 ^Callipepla Reichenow, Die Vogel, i, 1913, 317, part (includes Colinus cristata and 



Colinas nigrogularis as well as Callipepla, Oreoriyx, and Lophortyx). 



