50. CALLIPKPLA. 395 



Key to the Species. 



(I. Middle of breast and Lolly palo bulF; male 



witlumt a dark chestnut patch in the middle 



111' tlie bt'lly squamata, p. 395. 



l>. Middle of breast and belly deeper bull" or 



ocliraceous ; male with a dark chestnut patch 



in the middle of the belly castanei venter, p. 396. 



1. Callipepla squamata. 



Ortyx squamatus, Vicjors, Zool. Joiirn. v. p. 27o (1830) [Mexico]; 



A//erf, P. Ac. I'hilad. iii. p. 221 (1847) [New Mexico]. 

 Ortyx squamata, Less. III. Zool. text to ])1. 52 (1831). 

 Tetrao cristata, La Llave, Itcy. Trim. i. p. 144 (1831) ; id. La Nat. 



Me.v. vii. App. p. Go (1884). 

 Callipepla strenua, Wayl. Isis, 1832, p. 278 [Mexico]. 

 Callipepla squamata, Cirai/, List Gen. B. ed. i. p. 01 (1840) ; Gould, 



Man. Odontoph. pt. i. pi. 19 (1844) ; Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 514 (1846) ; 



McCall, P. Ac. Philad. v. p. 222 (ls51) [llio Grandel ; Cassin, 



III. B. Oil. -p. 129, pi. xix. (1853); Baird, U. S. ^- Me.v. Sun\, 



Birds,-p. 23 (1859) ; id. B. iV. Arner. p. 046 (1860) ; Coues, P. Ac. 



Philad. 1866, p. 95 ; Gray, List Galliufe Brit. Mus. p. 78 (1867) ; 



id. Hund-l. B. ii. p. 273 (1870) ; Coop. Calif. Orn. i. p. 550 (1870) ; 



Coues, B. N.-JVe.sf, p. 441 (1872); id. Knj N. Aitier. 7i. p. 238 



(1872) ; Baird, Breu:,^- liidyw. N. Amer.' B. iii. p. 487 (1874) ; 



Brewst. Bull. Nuft. Orn. C. viii. p. 33 (1883) [Arizona] ; Coues, 



Key N.Am. j5. p. 593 (1884j; Stephens, Auk, ii. p. 226 (1885) 



[Tucson, Arizona]; Scott, Auk; iii. p. 387 (188()) [Arizona]; 



A. O. U. Chvck-list, p. 169 (1886); Lloyd, Auk, iv. p. 187 



(1887) [W. Texas]; liidipc. Man. N. Am. B. p. 191 (1887); 



Thurber, Auk, vii. p. 89(1890) [Colfax Co., N. Mexico]; Bendire, 



N. Am. B. p. 18, pi. i. tifjrs. 4, 5 (1892). 

 Callipepla squamniata, Gumbel, Jouni. Ac. Philad. n. s. i. p. 219 



(1849) [N. Mexico " and the adjoininjr parts of California ! "J. 

 Calli]iepla squamata pallida, Brewst. Bull. Nutt. Orn. C. vi. p. 72 



(1881) [liio San Pedro, Arizona]. 



Adult male. Forehead and sides of head grey, short occipital 

 crest and eur-coverts brown, the former tipped with white; chiu 

 and throat whitish buff; nock, mantle, chest, and sides of breast 

 prey, shading into pale whitish buff on the middle of the breast 

 and belly, every feather margined with black, giving all these parts 

 a beautiful scaled appearance, while across the middle of each 

 featlier of the undcrpurts is a V-shaped dusky band or mark ; 

 M'ings, lower back, rump, and upper tail-coTcrts brownish grey, 

 I lie longer scapulars and outer secondaries margined on the inner 

 web with white ; Hanks grey, with white shaft -spots on the terminal 

 half of the leathers ; rent buff ; under tail-covcrts pale rufous buff, 

 with usually a dark mark or band down the middle; tail grey, 

 tlie outer feathers narrowly margined round the tips with white. 

 Total length 10 inches, wing 4-8, tail 3-0, tarsus 1"2, middle toe 

 and claw 1*35. 



Adult female. Differs only from tho male in having dusky 



