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PHASIANIDJE. 



shaft-stripes to the feathers of the throat, inside the wliite margins 

 to the inner webs of the secondaries a black marginal line, and 

 the outer margins of the secondaries with indistinct buff mottlings. 

 Total length 9-5 inches, wing 4-7, tail 3-4, tarsus 1-2, middle toe 

 and claw 1-3. 



Ilab. 'New Mexico, Arizona, Western Texas, and IVorth and Central 

 Mexico from Chihuahua and San Luis Potosi as far south as the 

 City of Mexico. ? S.E. California. 



a-c. cJ 2 ad- sk. San Pedro slope, Pinal Co., Salviu-Godman Coll. 



Arizona, Nov., Dec. ( JV. E. 



n. Scott), 

 d-o. cJ 2 ad. et New Mexico [H. W. Senshaw). Salviu-Gndman Coll. 



juv. sk. 

 P^- 6 2 ad. et Engle, New Mexico, Oct. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



imm. sk. {E. W. Nekon). 



«, i. d" ? ad. sk. Presidio Co., Texas, June Salvin-Goduian Coll. 



( W. Lloyd). 

 n-7v. c? 2 ad. sk. Cliupadero, Chihuahua, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Mexico, Jan. ( W. Lloi/d). 

 .(•, y. (5 ad. sk. San Diego, Chihuahua, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Mexico, Feb. (^F.Z%f/). 

 ~^/'- J 2ad. sk. San Luis Potosi, Mexico, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



July ( ir. B. liic/iardson). 

 g k' . (S 2 ad. sk. Plains of San Luis Potosi, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Mexico, July ( W. B. Rich- 



ardson). 

 I'. S ad. sk. Near the City of Mexico. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Subsp. a. Callipepla castaneiventer. 



Callipepla squammata, McC'all {nee Vig.), P. Ac. Philad. v. p. 222 

 (1851). 



Callipepla squamata, Dresser (nee Vig.), Ibis, 18GC, p. 28 [S. 

 Texas]. 



Callipepla squamata castanogastris, Breust. Bull. Kutt. Orn. C. viii. 

 p. 34 (1883) [Lower Eio Grande; E. Mexico]; A. O. U. Check- 

 list, p. 109 (1886); liidgw. Man. N. Am. B. p. 192 (1887); 

 Beckham, P. U. S. Nat. Mus. x. pp. 640, 656 (1887) [S.W. Texas]; 

 Attu-ater. Auk, ix. p. 233 (1892) [San Antonio, Texas] ; Bendire, 

 N. Am. B. p. 22, pi. i. figs. 6, 7 (1892), 



Adult mcde and female. Differ from C. squamata in having the 

 general colour of the middle feathers of the breast and belly deeper 

 buff or ochraceous, and in the male a dark reddish-chestnut patch on 

 the middle of the belly. (This patch is sometimes indicated in the 

 female also.) 



Hah. Tamaulipas, N.E. Mexico, and lower Eio Grande Talley, 

 Texas. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Rio Grande R., Texas, Feb. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



[H. B. Butcher). 

 i-''. cJ 2 ad. sk. Rio Grande City, Texas, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



March {F. B. Armstrong). 



