BIRDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 291 



Range. — Resident in the Warner Valley, southeastern Oregon. Birds 

 from Malheur County to the west show some variation toward orecta. 

 The race is only faintly characterized, but in fresh material it is 

 recognizable. 



Type locality. — Mouth of Twenty Mile Creek, Warner Valley, 9 miles 

 south of Adel, Oreg. 



Lophorty.v calif ornica orecta Oberholser, Sci. Publ. Cleveland Mus. Nat. Hist., iv, 

 1932, 2 (mouth of Twenty Mile Creek, Warner Valley, 9 miles south of Adel, 

 Oreg.; orig. descr. ; crit.).— van Rossem, Auk, Ivi, 1939, 69, in text (crit.).— 

 —Miller, Condor, xliii, 1941, 259 (crit.). 



Lophortyx calif ornica calif ornica Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 44, 

 part.— Hellmayr and Conover, Cat. Birds Amer., i. No. 1, 1942, 232, part. 



LOPHORTYX GAMBELII GAMBELII Gambel 



Gambel's Quail 



Adult male. — Forehead, lores, and anterior part of crown black finely 

 streaked with pale buffy, the pale streaks ending just anterior to the 

 posterior limit of the coronal black, producing a narrow black posterior 

 border to this area, which, in turn, is bounded posteriorly by a transverse 

 white band between the eyes which turns back on each side to continue 

 over the eyes and auriculars to the sides of the neck, this white band 

 narrowly rimmed with black; the black posterior rim broadest on the 

 crown ; top and back of head between cinnamon-rufous and Sudan brown ; 

 crest of six terminally broadening, spatulate black feathers beginning at 

 midposterior point of the coronal white band; nape and sides of neck 

 and anterior interscapulars between neutral gray and light neutral gray, 

 each feather with a Dresden brown narrow shaft streak ; posterior inter- 

 scapulars, back, rump, and upper tail coverts neutral gray, all but the 

 posterior interscapulars washed more or less with mouse gray; upper 

 wing coverts and scapulars mouse gray washed with drab ; the scapulars 

 and innermost secondaries with whitish or buffy whitish margins on 

 their inner webs, the secondaries with narrower similar edges on their 

 outer webs ; primaries between .buffy brown and olive-brown, grayish on 

 their outer webs ; rectrices between neutral gray and deep neutral gray ; 

 chin and throat and cheeks solid black, the area bordered by a white 

 band running across the lower throat and turning forward on the sides 

 of the head to separate the cheeks from the auriculars, and ending at 

 the posterior angle of the eye, this white band narrowly rimmed poste- 

 riorly with black ; auriculars between Dresden brown and sepia ; breast 

 uniform neutral gray ; sides and anterior flanks with elongated feathers 

 of bright, dark chestnut, each with a terminally widening, narrowly spatu- 

 late white shaft stripe ; abdomen pale buffy white with a large patch on 

 the midposterior part ; the posterior flank feathers pale buffy white with 

 fairly broad hazel shaft stripes; under tail coverts similar but with the 



