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Adult female.— Wmg 113-119 (116.2) ; tail 76-86 (81) ; culmen from 

 base 15-17.2 (16.3); tarsus 30.5-34 (32.4); middle toe without claw 

 26-28 (26.9 mm.).^^ 



Range. — Resident in arid open country from southern Arizona (Ask 

 Peak, Bisbee, Camp Grant, Clifton, Dos Cabesos, Fort Huachuca, Pima 

 and Pinal Counties, Picacho, Oracle, Rice, Santa Rita Mountains, San 

 Bernardino Ranch, Tucson, Wilcox), northern New Mexico (Haynes 

 and the Taos Mountains), east-central Colorado (Matteson and Holly), 

 extreme southwestern Oklahoma (western Cimarron County) and ad- 

 jacent parts of southwestern Kansas, and Texas east almost to longitude 

 100° W. (to Lipscomb in the north to Del Rio in the south) and to 

 northwestern and central-northern Mexico (Sonora — San Jose Moun- 

 tains; northern Chihuahua — Casas Grandes and Whitewater). 



Introduced, but unsuccessfull}^ in Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, and 

 Washington ; more successfully in Colorado. 



Type locality. — Rio San Pedro and Fort Bowie, Ariz.z=Rio San Pedro. 



Ortyx squainatus (not of Wagler) Abert, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, iii, 

 1847, 221 (New Mexico). 



Ortyx sguamata Lesson, Illustr. Zool., 1832, text to pi. 52. 



Callipepla sguamata Gambel, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, i, 1847, 219 (New 

 Mexico and "adjoining parts of California"). — McCall, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Philadelphia, 1851, 222, part (Santa Fe, N. Max.). — Baird, in Stansbur}''s Rep. 

 Great Salt Lake, 1853, 326, 334 (New Mexico) ; Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 

 1858, 646, part (Organ Mountains, Pecos, etc., N. Mex.) ; Cat. North Amer. 

 Birds, 1859, No. 476, part ; Rep. U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. 2, 1859, 23, 

 part (San Bernardino, Sonora) ; in Cooper, Orn. California, Land Birds, 1870, 

 556, part. — Cassin, Illustr. Birds California, Texas, etc., 1854, 129, pi. 19. — 

 Heermann, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, No. 1, 1859, 19, part (San Pedro River, 

 Ariz.; Fort Clark, Tex.; habits). — CouEs, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 1866, 95 (valleys of Gila and Colorado Rivers, Ariz.) ; Check List North Amer. 

 Birds, 1874, No. 393, pt. ; ed. 2, 1882, No. 577, part ; Birds Northwest, 1874, 487, 

 part. — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. North Amer. Birds, iii, 1874, 487, 

 part, pi. 63, fig. 6.— Brewster, Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 72 (San Pedro 

 River, Ariz.; crit.) ; viii, 1883, 33 (w. to Picacho Station, Ariz.; crit.). — Ameri- 

 can Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, 1886, No. 293; ed. 2, 1895, No. 293, 

 part; and ed. 3, 1910, 136, part. — Scott, Auk, iii, 1886, 387 (San Pedro slope of 

 Santa Catalina Mountains, Ariz., up to 3,500 feet; etc.; habits). — Allen, Auk, 

 iii, 1886, 388 (Arizona; crit.).— (?) Lloyd, Auk, iv, 1887, 187 (Tom Green and 

 Concho Counties, w. Tex.). — Thurber, Auk, vii, 1890, 89 (Point of Rocks, Col- 

 fax County, N. Mex. ) .— Bendire, Life Hist. North Amer. Birds, i, 1892, 18, part 

 (chiefly). — Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxii, 1893, 395, part (Pinal 

 County, Ariz. ; Engle, N. Mex. ; Chupadero and San Diego, Chihuahua ; Presidio 

 County, w. Tex.) ; Handb. Game Birds, ii, 1897, 115, part.— Lowe, Auk, xii, 1895, 

 298 (e. foothills of Wet Mountains, Pueblo County, Colo., at 6,000 ft., June 10, 

 1895) ; xxxiv, 1917, 453 (Pueblo and Huerfano Counties, Colo.). — Anthony, 

 Auk, xii, 1895, 388 (Platte River s. of Denver, Colo. ) .—Cooke, Colorado State 

 Agr. Coll. Bull. 37, 1897, 69 (e. foothills Wet Mountains, 1 spec, June 1895) ; 



** Eleven specimens from Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico. 



