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Lophorlyx doiiglasii douglasii McLellan, Proc. California Acad. Sci., ser. 4, xvi, 



1927, 7 (near Labrados, Mexico; plum.)- — van Rossem, Trans. San Diego 



Soc. Nat. Hist., vi, 1931, 245 (Sonera; Tesia, Chenobampo, Guirocoba; spec). 



Peters, Check-list Birds World, ii, 1934, 46, part. — Hellmayr and Conover, 



Cat. Birds Amer., 1, No. 1, 1942, 237, part (syn.; distr.). 

 [Lophortyx douglasii] douglasii Friedmann, Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., xxxiii, 



1943, 370 (crit.). 

 Lophortyx douglasi doxiglasi Miller, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., xxi, 1905, 



342 (Escuinapa, etc., s. Sinaloa; crit.); xxii, 1906, 162 (Casa Blanca, nw. 



Durango, 1,000 ft.). 

 Orlyx elegans Lesson, Traite d'Orn., 1831, 508 ("California") ; Cent. Zool., 1832, 



189, pi. 61 ("California"). 

 [Callipepla] elegans Reichenbach, Synop. Av., iii, Gallinaceae, Feb. 1848, pi. 199, 



fig. 1917.— Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 273, No. 9795.— Sclater and Salvin, 



Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 138. 

 Callipepla elegans Gould, Monogr. Odontoph., pt. 3, 1850, pi. 18 and text.— Baird, 



Rep. Stansbury's Expl. Great Salt Lake, 1852, 334 ("California"). — Gray, 



List Birds Brit. Mus., pt. 5, Gallinae, 1867, 78.— Finsch, Abh. Nat. Verh. 



Bremen, 1870, 357 (Mazatlan). — Lawrence, Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., ii, 



1874, 306 (Mazatlan). — Beristain and Laurencio, Mem. Rev. Soc. Cient. 



"Antonio Alzate," vii, 1894, 219, part (Sinaloa). 

 C[allipepla] elegans Cubas, Cuadro Geograph., Estadistico, Descr. e Hist, de los 



Estados Unidos Mexicanos, 1884, 168 (common names; Mexico). — Ridgway, 



Man. North Amer. Birds, 1887, 585 ; 2d ed., 1895, 588. 

 Lophortyx elegans Nuttall, Man. Orn. United States and Canada, Land Birds, 



ed. 2, 1840, 792 ("Upper California").— Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., pt. 3, 



Gallinae, 1844, 45. 

 Callipepla elegans bensoni Lantz, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. for 1896-7 (1899), 



219 (Culiacan and Limoncito, Sinaloa). 

 Ortyx spilogaster Vigors, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, pt. 2, 1832, 4 (Mexico or 



Chile; coll. Ft. Cuming). 



LOPHORTYX DOUGLASII BENSONI (Ridsway) 



Benson's Quail 



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Adult male. — Similar to that of Lophortyx d/ uglasii douglasii but 

 the black color, of the throat decidedly predominating over the white, the 

 rusty markings of the hindneck, scapulars, inner secondaries, and flanks 

 averaging less rufescent ; the gray of the breast paler — smoke gray with 

 a faint brownish tinge, and the crest averaging paler. 



Adult female. — Similar to that of Lophortyx douglasii douglasii but 

 with the crest usually uniformly dark sepia to fuscous (not barred and 

 spotted with tawny) ; the upper throat more broadly and heavily streaked 

 with dusky; whitish spots on the abdomen larger. 



Juvenal female. — Similar to the adult but somewhat darker in gen- 

 eral tone ; the scapulars and inner secondaries with more extensive olive- 

 buff; the crest feathers transversely spotted with olive-tawny; the outer 

 webs of the primaries mottled with pale bufify hair brown and the remiges 

 more pointedly distally. 



