BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 299 



Lophortyx gatnbcli gambeli Bailey, Birds New Mexico, 1928, 218, part (New 

 Mexico). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, ed. 4, 1931, 90, part. — 

 Bent, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 162, 1932, 72>, part (life hist. ; distr. ; descr.). 



Lophortyx calif orniciis Dresser, Ibis, 1866, 27 (Devils River, Tex.). 



Callipcpla dcgans (not Ortyx clcgans Lesson) Woodhouse^ in Rep. Sitgrcaves Expl. 

 Zuiii and Colorado R., 1853, 95 (Rio Grande near El Paso, Tex.). 



Lophortyx gambclii ignosccns Friedmann, Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., xxxiii, 

 1943, 371 (San Elizario, Tex.; descr.; distr.; crit. ; type in U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



LOPHORTYX DOUGLASII DOUGLASII (Vigors) 



Elegant Quail 



Adult male. — Forehead, anterior and lateral parts of crown, sides of 

 occiput, cheeks, and auriculars white narrowly streaked with black, the 

 anterior edge of the forehead and the lores more or less suffused with 

 olive-brown, and the immediate supra- and postocular area tinged with 

 tawny; crest coming from hindcenter of crown ochraceous-salmon to 

 bright orange-cinnamon ; feathers of the middle of the occiput from 

 immediately behind the base of the crest to the nape, grayish white with 

 wedge-shaped terminal shaft spots of argus brown to Brussels brown, 

 the more proximal (hidden) parts of the shafts blackish; hindneck and 

 lower sides of neck between neutral gray and pale neutral gray, the 

 feathers with tear-shaped terminal shaft spots of Brussels brown; inter- 

 scapulars neutral gray somewhat tinged with buffy brown; scapulars 

 and innermost secondaries bright to dark Sanford's brown laterally 

 edged with white, a narrow^ dusky line separating the Sanford's brown 

 from the white edges, these feathers basally dusky buffy brown ; upper 

 wing coverts buffy brown or slightly darker, the innermost ones with 

 reduced broad medial streaks of Sanford's brown; secondaries, other 

 than the innermost ones, olive-brown, their external edges finely dap- 

 pled with buffy or whitish forming indistinct margins of paler ; primaries 

 dark olive-brown; feathers of the upper back neutral gray tinged with 

 buffy brown and with terminally broadening shaft streaks of Sanford's 

 brown; back, lower back, rump, and upper tail coverts light brownish 

 olive much tinged with deep grayish ; rectrices deep neutral gray tipped 

 and edged with buffy brownish; chin and upper throat barred black and 

 white, the chin more blackish than white ; lower throat and breast be- 

 tween pale neutral gray and light mouse gray; upper and middle ab- 

 domen similar but spotted with fairly large oval white spots, some of 

 the posterolateral feathers with a strong tinge of dull orange-cinnamon 

 on the gray portions; feathers of sides and flanks with broad median 

 areas orange-cinnamon to Sanford's brown, the gray lateral areas broken 

 by narrow, elongate oval white spots corresponding to those on the 

 abdomen; lower abdomen and under tail coverts pale pinkish buff to 

 buffy white, each feather with a broad shaft stripe of dull hazel to Van- 



