BIRDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 287 



Adult male.—Wmg 116-119 (117.7); tail 89.5-90 (89.7); culmen 

 from base 14.5-16 (15) ; tarsus 33-35 (34.1) ; middle toe without claw 

 27.5-29 (28.3 mm.).'^ 



Adult female.— Wing 113.5-117 (115.7) ; tail 87.5-88 (87.8) ; culmen 

 from base 14.5-16 (14.8) ; tarsus 32-33 (32.3) ; middle toe without claw 

 27-28 (27.6 mm.).'^« 



Range. — Resident on Santa Catalina Island, Calif. 



Type locality. — Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, Calif. 



Lophortyx californicus (not Tetrao californicus Shaw) Baird, in Cooper, Orn. 

 California, Land Birds, 1870, 549, part (Santa Catalina Island). 



Callipepla californica vallicola (not of Ridgway) Grinnell, Auk, xv, 1898, 234 

 (Santa Catalina Island). — Howell, Pacific Coast Avif., No. 12, 1917, 52, part 

 (Santa Catalina Island; crit.). 



Lophortyx catalineiisis Grinnell, Auk, xxiii, 1906, 262 (Avalon, Santa Catalina 

 Island, Santa Barbara group, Calif. ; coll. J. Grinnell) ; Condor, x, 1908, 94 

 (crit.). — Childs, Warbler, iii, 1907, 1, col. pi. (eggs; descr. nest and eggs). — 

 Richardson, Condor, x, 1908, 66 (Santa Catalina Island). — Oberholser, Auk, 

 xxxiv, 1917, 194 (crit.). — Grinnell, Univ. California Publ. Zool., xxxviii, No. 

 3, 1932,270 (type loc; crit). 



Lophortyx californica catalinensis Grinnell, Pacific Coast Avif., No. 8, 1912, 10 

 (California; listed) ; No. 11, 1915, 59 (Santa Catalina Island) ; Condor, xxxiii, 

 1931, 38 (crit.).— Oberholser, Auk, xxxiv, 1917, 194 (crit.) ; xxxv, 1918, 206.— 

 Grinnell, Bryant, and Storer, Game Birds California, 1918, 537 (distr.). — 

 Dawson, Birds California (stud, ed.), iii, 1923, 1578 (California; habits; distr.). 

 — American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, ed. 4, 1931, 89 (distr.). — 

 Bent, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 162, 1932, 70 (habits; distr.).— Willett, Pacific 

 Coast Avif. No. 21, 1933, 49 (abundant; Catalina Island; considers this race 

 only doubtfully distinct). — Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 45. — 

 Hellmayr and Conover, Cat. Birds Amer., i, No. 1, 1942, 234 (syn.; distr.). 



Lophortyx [californica] catalinensis Dickey and van Rossem, Condor, xxiv, 1922, 

 34, in text (crit. ; maintains its validity). 



LOPHORTYX CALIFORNICA PLUMBEA Grinnell 



San Quintin Valley Quail 



Adult male. — Similar to that of the nominate race but with the back 

 more grayish in fresh plumage, having little or no brownish suffusion ; 

 the breast is neutral gray, by which darker tone it may be distinguished 

 from L. c. orecta (in which the breast is light neutral gray). 



Adult female. — Similar to that of the nominate race but much more 

 grayish, less brownish above; the breast is mouse gray (as opposed to 

 grayish drab to light grayish drab in the races achrustera, canfieldae, and 

 orecta. 



Adult male— Wing 102-115 (107.3) ; tail 77-88.5 (83) ; culmen from 

 base 13.8-15.5 (14.5); tarsus 28^33 (30.9); middle toe without claw 

 24-27.5 (25.8 mm.)." 



'" Three specimens of each sex. 

 "Eighteen specimens. 



