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Adult female.— Wing 125-134 (130.2); tail 69-79 (74.4); culmen 

 from base 15.3-16.5 (16.0) ; tarsus 33.6-36.4 (35.1) ; middle toe without 

 claw 27.2-32.3 (29.9 mm.).^^ 



Range. — Resident in the humid coastal area from southwestern Wash- 

 ington (Cedarville, Columbia River, San Juan Island, Tacoma, Puget 

 Sound) south through western Oregon (coastal counties, and in the Wil- 

 lamette Valley, including the west slope of the Cascades at least as far 

 south as Eugene) to western California as far as San Luis Obispo County. 



Introduced into Vancouver Island; erroneously (?) reported from 

 Kalama, British Columbia. 



Type locality. — Yaquina, Oreg. 



Oreoriyx pictiis (not Ortyx picta Douglas) Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 

 642, part ; Cat. North Amer. Birds, 1859, No. 473, part ; in Cooper, Orn. Cali- 

 fornia, Land Birds, 1870, 546, part.— Cooper and Suckley, Rep. Pacific R. R. 

 Surv., xii, book ii, pt. 3, 1860, 225 (Vancouver, Washington, Willamette Vallej^ 

 Oreg.).— CouES, Check List North Amer. Birds, 1874, No. 390, part.— Baird, 

 Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. North x\mer. Birds iii, 1874, 475, part. — American 

 Ornithologists' Union, Check4ist, 1886, No. 292, part.— Anthony, Auk, iii, 

 1886, 164 (Washington County, Oreg.). — Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist., iii, 1890, 133 (Kalama, British Columbia, flock of about 20).— Rhoads, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1893, ?>7 (Nisqually, British Columbia, in- 

 troduced; Tacoma, Wasli., indigenous). — Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xxii, 1893, 397, part (Portland, Oreg.; Cloverdale and San Francisco, Calif.). — 

 Macoun, Cat. Can. Birds, 1900, 197 (Vancouver Island; introduced). — Mc- 

 Gregor, Pacific Coast Avif., No. 2, 1901, 5 (California; Santa Cruz Mountains; 

 rare; breeds). — Bailey, Handb. Birds Western United States, 1902, 117, part 

 (descr.; distr.).— Judd, U. S. Biol. Surv. Bull., 1905, 58, part (range; habits; 

 food). — Bowles, Auk, xxiii, 1906, 142 (Tacoma, Wash., resident; introduced?). 

 — Kermode, [Visitors' Guide] Publ. Provinc. Mus., 1909, 40 (Vancouver Island; 

 introduced). — Dawson and Bowles, Birds of Washington, ii, 1909, 564 (Wash- 

 ington; habits; distr.). — Macoun and Macoun, Cat. Can. Birds, ed. 2, 1909, 215 

 (Vancouver Island; introd. ; common). 



[Orcortyx] pictus CouES, Key North Amer. Birds, 1872, 237 part. — Sharpe, Hand- 

 list, i, 1899, 44, part. 



0[rcortyx] pictus Ridgway, Man. North Amer. Birds, 1887, 191, part; Auk, xi, 1894, 

 195 part (crit. ; range). 



Oreortyx picta Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 196, part; Nom. North 

 Amer. Birds, 1881, No. 481, part.— Taverner, Birds Western Canada, 1926, 161 

 (Vancouver Island; introd.) ; Birds Canada, 1934, 165, in text (introd.) ; Can. 

 Water Birds, 1939, 176 (Vancouver Island; introd.).— Alford, Ibis, 1928, 196 

 (Vancouver Island). — Clark, Condor, xxxii, 1930, 51 (Mount St. Helena, Napa 

 County, Calif.). 



Oreoortyx pictus Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1859, 236 (Vancouver Island). 



Orortyx pictits Coues, Check List, ed. 2, 1882, No. 574, part. 



0[rorlyx] pictus Coues, Key North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1884, 591, part. 



[Oreortyx pictus] Var. pictus Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. North Amer. 

 Birds, iii, 1874, 476, part. 



"Eight specimens from western Washington, Oregon, and California. 



