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Cyrtonyx vmssena (not Orlyx masserm Lesson) Baird, tit Rep. Stansbury's Expl. 

 Great Salt Lake, 1852, 334 (San Pedro and Rio Pecos, N. Mex.) ; Rep. Pacific 

 R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 647 (Chihuahua; Fort Davis, Turkey Creek, Las Moras, 

 and Laredo, w. Texas; Mimbres to Rio Grande; Nuevo Leon) ; Rep. U. S. and 

 Mex. Bound, Surv., ii, pt. 2, 1859, 23 (Turkey Creek and Laredo, Tex.; Nuevo 

 Leon) ; Cat. North Amer. Birds, 1859, No. 477.— Cas.sin, Illustr. Birds Cali- 

 fornia, Texas, etc., 1853, 21, pi. 4.— Dresser, Ibis, 1866, 29 (Bandera Hills, 

 Texas).— CouES, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1866, 95 (Fort Whipple! 

 Ariz.) ; Check List North Amer. Birds, 1874, No. 394; ed. 2, 1882, No. 678; 

 Birds Northwest, 1874, 443, excl. syn. part.— Cooper, Orn. California, Land 

 Birds, 1870, 558 (Arizona).— Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. North Amer. 

 Birds, iii, 1874, 492, excl. syn. part, pi. 61, fig. 2, pi. 64, figs. 3, 6.— Brewster, Bull. 

 Nuttall Orn. Club, viii, 1883, 35 (Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona). 

 [Cyrtonyx] massena Coues, Key North Amer. Birds, 1872, 239.— Sclater and 



Salvin, Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 137, part. 

 C[yrtonyx] massena Coues, Key North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1884, 594. 

 Cyrtonyx montezimiac (not Ortyx montcsumae Vigors) American Ornithologists' 

 Union, Check-list, 1886, 110, No. 296; ed. 2, 1895, 110, No. 296.— Scott, 

 Auk, iii, 1886, 389 (Pinal, Santa Catalina, and Santa Rita Mountains, Ariz.,' 

 up to 5,700 feet).— Lloyd, Auk, iv, 1887, 187 (localities in Tom Green County! 

 w. Texas; Nueces and Frio Canyons).— Beckham, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x,' 

 1887, 637, 656 (Leon Springs, Bexar County, Tex.).— Cooke, Bird Migr. Mis- 

 sissippi Valley, 1888, 103 (Mason, Tom Green County, etc., Tex.).— Bendire, 

 Life Hist. North Amer. Birds, i, 1892, 35.— Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat.' 

 Hist., v, 1893, 23 (Los Pinitos, ne. Sonora).— Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xxii, 1893, 425, part (Yecoera, Sonora; Jesus Maria and Canada, Chi- 

 huahua; Bandera Hills, Tex.; Apache and Crittenden, Ariz.); Ibis, 1902, 241 

 (crit.).—D WIGHT, Auk, xvii, 1900, 50 (molt, etc.).— Salvin and God'man, 'Biol. 

 Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 305, part (Los Pinitos, Los Vengos, Nacori, 

 Huerachi, and Yecoera, ne. Sonora; Jesus Maria and Canada, n. Chihuahua)'.. 

 [Cyrtonyx] montezumcc Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 46, part. ^'^ 



C[yrtonyx] montcsuma; Ridgway, Man. North Amer. Birds, 1887, 194, part. 

 Cyrtonyx montczumce mearnsi Nelson, Auk, xvii, 1900, 255 (Fort Huachuca, s. 

 Arizona; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.) ; xix, 1902, 390 (crit.), pi. 15, fig. 1.— Bailey,'. 

 Handb. Birds Western United States, 1902, 122; Birds New Mexico, 1928,' 

 223 (New Mexico; habits).— Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1903, 111 (crit.).— Fuertes| 

 Condor, v, 1903, 113 (habits in Texas).— Swarth, Pacific Coast Avif., No. 4,' 

 1904, 4 (Huachuca Mountains, Ariz.; more abundant on western than on 

 eastern slope); Condor, xxvi, 1909, 39 (distr. in U. S. ; molt); Pacific Coast 

 Avif., No. 10, 1914, 22 (Arizona; Upper Sonoran and Transition Zone of 

 central and southeastern Arizona; 4,000 to 9,000 feet); Proc. California Acad. 

 Sci., ser. 4, xviii, 1929, 290 (Stone Cabin and Madera Canyons, San Rafael 

 Valley, Ariz.).— Montgomery, Auk, xxii, 1905, 13 (Brewster County, Tex.).— 

 JUDD, U. S. Biol. Surv. Bull. 21, 1905, 63 (range, habits, food, etc.).'— Miller, 

 Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., xxii, 1906, 162 (Pasaje de las Mujeres, nw! 

 Durango).— American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, ed 3, 1910, 137; 

 ed. 4, 1931, 91.— Lacey, Auk, xxviii, 1911, 206 (7 miles sw. of Kcrrville, Tex.).— 

 Wyman and Burnell, Field Book Birds Southwestern United States, 1925, 

 86 (descr. ; habits).— Bruner, Condor, xxviii, 1926, 232 (Baboquivari Moun- 

 tains, Ariz.).— Oberholser, Sci. Publ. Cleveland Mus. Nat. Hist., i, 1930, 84 

 (spec; Huachuca Mountains, Ariz.).— van Rossem, Trans. San Diego Soc. 

 Nat. Hist., vi, 1931, 247 (Sonora, Mexico); viii, 1936, 128 (.south-central 

 Arizona) ; Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool, Ixvii, 1934, 432 (distr. in Sonora).— Bent. 



