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Adult male.— Wing 103-112.5 (107.9) ; tail 57-64 (61) ; culmen from 

 the base 13.5-14 (13.7) ; tarsus 28-31 (29.8) ; middle toe without claw 

 25-28 (26.3 mm.).^ 



Adult female.— Wing 98.5-110.5 (107.1) ; tail 50.5-62 (56.3) ; culmen 

 from base 12.5-14 (13.1) ; tarsus 28-31 (29.4) ; middle toe without claw 

 25-28 (26.5 mm.).^ 



Range. — Resident in open country in the Upper and Lower Sonoran 

 Zone from southeastern New Mexico (Carlsbad, Texline, Nara Vasa, 

 sandhills near Logan, etc.) ; central and southern Texas (north to the 

 neighborhood of the Brazos River, where it intergrades with the nominate 

 race), south to northeastern Coahuila and Nuevo Leon and to north- 

 central Tamaulipas. 



Introduced, either by itself or mixed with typical virginianus, and now 

 hopelessly mixed beyond the point of subspecific identifiability, into central 

 Colorado, Utah, Idaho, California, Montana, Oregon, Washington, many 

 of the eastern States, and in the West Indies, especially Haiti. 



Type locality. — Above Ringgold Barracks, Tex. 



Ortyx virginiana (not Tetrao virginianus Linnaeus) McCall, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 



Philadelphia, 1851, 220 (sw. Texas; "New Mexico").— Nehrling, Bull. Nuttall 



Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 175 (Houston, etc., se. Texas). 

 Ortyx z'irginianns Woodhouse, in Rep. Sitgreaves Expl. Zuiii and Colorado Rivers, 



1853, 94 (Indian Territory; Texas e. of San Pedro River). — Baird, Rep. U. S. 



and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. 2, 1859, 22 (e. Texas). 

 Colinus virginianus American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, ed. 2, 1895, 106 ; 



ed. 3, 1910, 134, part. — Friedmann, Auk, xlii, 1925, 543 (lower Rio Grande 



Valley, Tex.). — Sutton and Burleigh, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool., Louisiana State 



Univ., No. 3, 1939, 28 (ne. Mexico; common n. Tamaulipas, n. Nuevo Leon). 

 Ortyx texanus Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, vi, 1853, 1 (Ringgold 



Barracks, Tex.; coll. G. N. Lawrence). — Baird, Rep. Pacific R.R. Surv., ix, 



1858, 641 ; Rep. U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. 2, 1859, 22, pi. 24 (Devils 

 River and Laredo, Tex.; Matamoros, Tamaulipas; Nuevo Leon); Cat. North 

 Amer. Birds, 1859, No. 472.— Heermann, Rep. Pacific R.R. Surv., x, No. 1, 



1859, 18 (Pecos River, Tex.). — Baird, Cassin, and Lawrence, Rep. Pacific 

 R.R. Surv., 1860, atlas, pi. 62.— Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 315, 317, in text, 1866, 27 

 (s. Texas).— Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., pt. 5, Gallinae, 1867, 75.— Butcher, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1868, 150 (Laredo, Tex.).— Baird, Brewer, 

 and Ridgway, Hist. North Amer. Birds, iii, 1874, pi. 63, figs. 3, 4.— Salvin 

 and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 298, part (s. and w. Texas; 

 Matamoros, etc., n. Tamaulipas; Hacienda de las Escobas, San Agustin, San 

 Pedro, Vaqueria, Estancia, and Topo Chico, Nuevo Leon?).* 



Ortix texanus Cubas, Cuadro Geogr., Estadistico, Descr. e Hist, de los Estados 



Unidos Mexicanos, 1884, 175 (common names; Mexico). 

 [Ortyx virginianus] Var. texanus Coues, Key North Amer. Birds, 1872, 237. 

 Ortyx virginianus . . var. texanus Coues, Check-list North Amer. Birds, 1874, No. 



389b. 



' Ten specimens of each sex. 



' Some of these localities, at least, may refer to C. v. maculatus. 



