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Adult ;;;a/r.— Wing 502-524 (511) ; tail 373-427 (398.4) ; culmen from 

 cere 34.5-40 (37.2) ; tarsus 159-175 (166.6) ; middle toe without claw 

 78-88 (83.5 mm.). 24 



Adult feimle.—Wmg 400-463 (435.9) ; tail 325-360 (345) ; culmen 

 from cere 31-34 (32.3) ; tarsus 124-159 (133.6) ; middle toe without claw 

 66-73 (68.8 mm.). 25 



Range. — Resident in the Transition and Upper Austral Zones in the 

 mountains of central and southwestern Colorado (up to 7,000 feet ; Canyon 

 City ; Upper Arkansas River ; Raton Pass ; Las Animas ; South Park ; 

 Oak Hill; Pueblo County, San Miguel County), New Mexico (Manzano, 

 Chusa, Santa Fe, San Luis, San Mateo, and Sacramento Mountains ; 

 Upper Pecos River up to 11,000 feet; Valverde, La Jara, Cloudcroft, 

 Fort Thorn, Gila River, etc.) ; Arizona (Huachuca, Santa Catalina, and 

 San Francisco Mountains ; near Winslow ; Fort Whipple ; White Moun- 

 tains ; Williams; San Pedro River; Copper Mine; Bill Williams River; 

 etc.) ; and southwestern Texas (Guadelupe Mountains). 



Type locality. — Forty-seven miles southwest of Winslow, Ariz. 



Melcagris mexicana (not of Gould) Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 618 

 (Fort Thorn, N. Mex.) ; Cat. North Amer. Birds, 1859, No. 458.— Coues, Ibis, 



1865, 165, in text (Fort Whipple, Ariz.) ; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 



1866, 93 (Fort Whipple, Ariz.) ; 1868, 84 (mountains of New Mexico and 

 Arizona). — Elliot, New and Unfig. North Amer. Birds, pt. 10, 1868 (vol. ii), 

 pi. 38 and text, part; Monogr. Phasianidae, i, 1872, pi. 28, and text, part. — 

 Baird, in Cooper, Orn. California, Land Birds, 1870, 523, part (w. Texas to 

 Arizona). 



Melcagris gallopavo, var. mexicana Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. North Amer. 

 Birds, iii, 1874, 410, part. 



Melcagris gallopavo ynexicana American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, 1886, 

 No. 310a, part; ed. 2, 1895, No. 310a, part (w. Texas to Arizona). — Scott, 

 Auk, iii, 1886, 389 (San Pedro River and Santa Catalina Mountains, Ariz.). — 

 Cooke, Bird Migr. Mississippi Valley, 1888, 107, part (w. Texas; Arizona); 

 Colorado State Agr. Coll. Bull. 37, 1897, 72 (mountains of Colorado up to 7,000 

 ft.) ; Condor, xv, 1913, 104 [-105], fig. Z2 (map) (range in Colorado). — 

 Mearns, Auk, vii, 1890, 52 (San Francisco Mountains, Ariz.). — Mitchell, 

 Auk, XV, 1898, 307 (San Miguel County, N. Mex., 8,000 feet to timberline). 



M[eleagris] gallopavo mexicana Ridgway, Man. North Amer. Birds, 1887, 207, part 

 (w. Texas to Arizona). 



Melcagris gallopavo (not of Linnaeus) Woodhouse, in Sitgreaves Expl. Zuni and 

 Colorado Rivers, 1853, 93, part (Copper Mines and Bill Williams River, Ariz.). — 

 Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., v, 1873, 186 (Colorado) ; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 iii, 1880, 195; Norn. North Amer. Birds, 1881, No. 470.— Coues. Check List 

 North Amer. Birds, 1874, No. 379, part.— Henshaw, Auk, iii, 1886, 80 (upper 

 Pecos River, N. Mex.). — Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxii, 1893, 

 387, part (Sante Fe Mountains, N. Mex.; w. Texas; Arizona). — Cooke, Colo- 

 rado State Agr. Coll. Bull. Z7, 1897, 71 (Colorado; rare resident; distr.) ; 

 Bull. 56, 1900, 203 (South Park, Colo.).— American Ornithologists' Union, 



" Eight specimens from Arizona and New Mexico. 

 *° Twelve specimens from Arizona and New Mexico. 



