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Oreortyx pictus pictus, Grinnell, Pacific Coast Avif., No. 3, 1902, 29 (California; 

 common; distr.). 



Oreortyx p[ictns] pictus Jenkins, Condor, viii, 1906, 125 (Monterey County, Calif., 

 above 2,000 feet; habits). 



Oreortyx picta picta American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, ed. 3, 1910, 135, 

 part. — Bowles, Auk, xxviii, 1911, 172 (Tacoma, Wash., and most of Puget Sound 

 district, resident). — Grinnell,. Pacific Coast Avif., No. 8, 1912, 10 (California; 

 listed) ; No. 11, 1915, 58 (humid coast belt from Humboldt County to Sonoma 

 County in Santa Cruz Mountains). — Kellogg, Univ. California Publ. Zool., xii, 

 1916, 379 (Helena, Bear Creek, Castle Lake, and n. fork of Copper Creek, n. 

 California; crit.). — Kimball, Condor, xxiv, 1922, 96 (near Adams, Lake County, 

 Calif.).— Dawson, Birds California (stud, ed.), iii, 1923, 1570 (California; 

 habits). — Obejrholser, Auk, xli, 1924, 592 (syn.). — Taverner, Birds Western 

 Canada, 1926, 162 in text (introduced) ; Birds Canada, 1934, 165, in text.— Hall, 

 Murrelet, xiv, 1933, 64, footnote, 70 (history of discovery; spec. Multnomah 

 County, Oreg., 1805, ex Lewis and Clark Exped.). — Griffee and Rapraeger, 

 Murrelet, xviii, 1937, 16 (Portland, Oreg.; nesting dates). 



Calllpepla picta Newberry, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., vi, pt. 4, 1857, 93, part (hills 

 bordering Willamette Valley, Oreg.; habits). 



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

 ed. 2, 1840, 791 (Vv^illamette Valley). 



Oreortyx pictus plumiferus American Ornithologists'" Union, Check-list, 1886, No. 

 292a, part. — Woodcock, Oregon Agr. Exp. Stat. Bull. 68, 1902, 25 (w. slope Cas- 

 cade Mountains, Oreg.).— Anderson and Grinnell, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila- 

 delphia, 1903, 6 (Siskiyou Mountains, n. Calif.).— Ray, Auk, xx, 1903, 182 (Lake 

 Valley, centr. Sierra Nevada, 6,500 ft.). — Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila- 

 delphia, 1904, 580 (Mount Sanhedrin, e. Mendocino County, Calif.). 



0[reortyx] pictus plumiferus Ridgway, Man. North Amer. Birds, 1887, IQl. 



[Oreortyx] plumiferus Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 44. 



Oreortyx picta palmeri Oberholser, Auk, xl, 1923, 84 (Yaquina, Oreg. ; coll. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus.) ; Auk, xli, 1924, 592 (syn.).— Palmer, Condor, xxx, 1928, 291, in text 

 (patronymics). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, ed. 4, 1931, 90. 

 —Bent, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 162, 1932, 40 (life hist, distr.).— Caum, Occ. Pap. 

 Bishop Mus., X, No. 9, 1933, 14 (Hawaii; introduced; not known to have become 

 established).— Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 43.— Miller, Lumley, 

 and Hall, Murrelet, xvi, 1935, 57 (Washington, San Juan Islands; introduced). 

 — van Rossem, Condor, xxxix, 1937, 21 (crit.; distr.). — Gabrielson and Jewett, 

 Birds of Oregon, 1940, 223 (Oregon; distr.; descr. ; habits; photo of nest and 

 eggs). — Hellmayr and Conover, Cat. Birds Amer., i. No. 1, 1942, 227 (syn.; 

 distr.). 



OREORTYX PICTA PICTA (Douglas) 



Plumed Mountain Quail 



Adult. — Similar to that of the corresponding sex of O. picta palmeri, 

 but vi^ith the brown of the upper surface of the body and wings paler, 

 bufify brown to dark buffy brown with an olivaceous tinge ; the nape and 

 mantle slate-gray, occasionally washed with buffy brown, but never 

 solidly so as in palmeri; the forehead averaging paler, often whitish, the 

 inner edges of the innermost secondaries and the scapulars paler light 

 buff to buffy whitish. 



