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Adult male.— Wing 108-122 (112.1); tail 91-107 (96.3); culmen 

 from base 13.9-16.4 (15.4) ; tarsus 27.6-32.5 (30.5) ; middle toe without 

 claw 24.1-29.4 (26.9 mm.)^* 



Adult female.— Wing 105-118 (112.1); tail 83-102 (94.2); culmen 

 from base 14.3-16.2 (15.1) ; tarsus 27.9-31.9 (30.0) ; middle toe without 

 claw 24.1-28.4 (26.0 mm.).^^ 



Range. — Resident from southwestern Utah (St. George, Uinta, 

 Toquerville) and southern Nevada (Ash Meadows, Pahrump Valley) 

 south to southwestern New Mexico (Fort Bayard, Frisco, Joseph, Silver 

 City, Grafton) ; Arizona, to extreme northwestern Chihuahua (Cajon, 

 Bonito Creek), and through southern California (Death Valley, Needles, 

 Calipatria, San Diego County, etc.) to central Sonora (south to Guaymas 

 and Tecoripa) and to extreme northeastern Baja California (Cocopah 

 Mountains; Volcano Lake, Seven Wells, etc.). Introduced in many 

 places — Hawaii, Massachusetts, Missouri, etc., mostly without success. 



Type locality.— "Some distance west [i. e., east] of California"i=south- 

 ern Nevada. 



Lophorfyx gambclii Gambel, Proc. Acad. Nat. Scl. Philadelphia, 1843, 260 ("some 

 distance west [i.e., east] of California" = s. Nevada; ex Nuttall, manuscript) ; 

 Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, i, 1847, 219.— Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. 

 Surv., ix, 1858, 645, part (Gila River, Ariz. ; Colorado River, Calif.) ; Rep. U. S. 

 and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. 2, 1859, 23 (s. to Presidio del Norte, Tex. ; w. to 

 San Bernardino, n. Sonora) ; Cat. North Amer. Birds, 1859, No. 475 ; in Cooper, 

 Orn. California, Land Birds, 1870, 553 (Fort Mojave, etc.). — Heermann, Rep. 

 Pacific R. R. Surv., x, Parke's Route, 1859, 19 part (Fort Yuma, Ariz.). — Ken- 

 NERLY, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, No. 3, 1859, 33, part (Colorado River; habits). 

 — CouES, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1866, 94 (Fort Whipple, etc., Arizona; 

 habits; descr. young in various stages). — Henshaw, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New 

 York, xi, 1874, 10 (s. Utah). — American Ornithologists' Union, Auk, xvi, 

 1899, 106.— Bailey, Handb. Birds Western United States, 1902, 121 (descr.; 

 distr.). — Bruner, Condor, xxviii, 1926, 232 (Baboquivari Mountains, Ariz.). — 

 Miller, Taylor, and Swarth, Condor, xxxi, 1929, 77 in text (winter at Tucson, 

 Ariz.). — Miller, Condor, xxxiv, 1932, 139 (bones ex Indian dwellings, Arizona). 

 — Gorsuch, Condor, xxviii, 1936, 126 in text (banding records, Tucson, Ariz.). 

 — Carter, Condor, xxxix, 1937, 212 (Twentynine Palms, Calif.). — Neff, Con- 

 dor, xliii, 1941, 117 in text (arboreal nests in Arizona). 



Callipepla gambelii Gould, Monogr. Odontoph., 1850, pi. 17, text (unpaged). — Ameri- 

 can Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, ed. 2, 1895, 109, part. 



Lophortyx gambelii gambelii Grinnell, Proc. California Acad. Sci., sen 4, xiii, 1923, 

 60 (Furnace Creek Ranch, Death Valley, Calif. ; food) ; Distr. Summ. Orn. Baja 

 California, Univ. California Publ. Zool., xxxii, 1928, 103 (Baja California; 

 distr.). — Abbott, Condor, xxx, 1928, 163 (Borego Valley, Calif.). — Swarth, 



** Fifty-six specimens from Nevada, California, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, 

 Utah, and Mexico (Sonora, Chihuahua, and Baja California). 



*' Forty-one specimens from Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, California, and 

 Mexico (Sonora, Chihuahua, and Baja California). 



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