r)2. LOl'IIOKTYX. 401 



Cullipepla califiirnica, Gould, Mon. Odontoph pt. i. pi. 10 (1844); 

 (iamhd, Jimm. Ac. Philad. (n. s.) i. p. 218 (1849); Neiul/ern/, 

 Rep. P. R. R. Siirv. vi. pt. iv. n. 92 (18")7) ; Grai/, L'st (7idlm<7; 

 Brit. Mm. p. 78 (1867) ; id. Kand-l. B. ii. ]). 274"(1870); A. O. 

 U. Check-li.-!t, p. 109 (1880) ; Ecenman, Auk, iii. p. 92 (18><(i) 

 [Ventura Co., Cal.] ; Towmend, P. U. S. Nat. Mas. x. pp. 199, 

 2;i5 (1887) [N. ('alifnrnia, coast]; Rid(/w. Man. N. Am. B. 

 p. 19.3 (1887) ; Beldiii,/, Occm. Pap. Cal. Ac. Sci. p. 12 (1890) ; 

 Betidire, N. Atn. B. p. 2:3, pi. i. figs. 8-10 (1892). 



Lophoi-tv.K californianus, Orai/, List of B. pt. iii. Gall. p. 44 (1844) ; 

 Baird',B. N. Amer. p. 644 (18G0) ; Cones, Pm, 1800, p. 20.5 [Soda 

 Lake]; Brown, Pds, 1S6S, p. 417 [Vancouver Is., introduced]; 

 Coo;;. Calif. Orn. i. p. .549 (1870) ; Coue.f, Kn, N. Am. B. p. 2.38 

 (1872) ; Bnird, lirew., i<,- Ridgw. N. Am. B. iii. p. 479 (1874) ; 

 Conp. P. U. S. Nat. Mus. ii. p. 251 (1880); Dnnu, Auk, ii. p. 14 

 (188.5) [Denver, introduced]. 



Ortyx vii'fjinianus, Ilutton, Ibis, 1867, p. 379 [New Zealand]. 



Lo])liortyx californicus brunnescens, Ridgtc. P. Biol. Soc. Wash. ii. 

 p. 94 (1884) [Santa Barbara, California]. 



Callipepla calitbruica vallitola, Ridgw. P. U. S. Nat. Mus. viii. 

 p. .3.5.5 (1880) [Interior valleys of California] : A. O. U. Check-list 

 p. 109 (1880) ; Townsoid, P. U. S. Nat. Mus. x. pp. 200, 2-3.5 

 (1887) TN. California, interior]; Ridgw. Man. N. Am. B. p. 192 

 (lSS7)r,7'r/f/7Vs, Auk, vi. p. 221 (1889) fSanta Barbara, Cal.]; 

 Bcldiiig. O'ccas. Pap. Cal. Ac. Sci. p. 12 (1890) ; Bendire, N. Am. B. 

 p. 20 (^l«92j. 



Adult male. Forehead yellowish buff with dark shafts, bounded 

 behind by a white band which crosses the head between the eyes, 

 and is continued beliiud lliem in a white suj)ercLliary stripe ; on 

 each side of this baud llie head is black, shading into brown on 

 the occipital region ; a well-developed crest of black club-shaped 

 feathers ; chin, throat, and cheeks black, bounded bj' a white band 

 M'liich passes across the base of the black ear-coverts ; back and 

 sides of the neck, mantle, and chest grey ; eacli feather of the former 

 with a l)lack marginal band, produced up the shaft and giving a 

 W-shaped ap])earance ; there is also a subterminal white spot on 

 both webs ; these last disappear on the feathers of the mantle, on 

 the lower feathers of which the 1)lack margins also gradually dis- 

 appear ; the lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts are olive- 

 brown, washed with grey (in coast specimens), or grey washed with 

 olive (in inland s])ecimens); the wing-coverts, scapulars, and outer 

 secondaries are usually rather darker, the latter edged, especially on 

 the inner web, with bull'; primaries and inner secondaries brownish, 

 the middle of the breast buff; middle of belly chestnut, shading into 

 white or whitisli but!" on the sides and underparts ; all the feathers 

 are margined and barred across the middle with black; the sides 

 and Hanks with white .shaft-stripes ; thighs and under tail-coverts 

 buff, blackish down the middle ; tail slato-grey. Total length 9-7 

 inches, wing 4*4, tail 8-0, tarsus 1*2"), middle toe and claw 1-45. 



Adult fc male. Differs chiefly from the miile in having the crest 

 shorter and browner, no bhick and whit<^ pattern on the head and 

 throat, most of the feathers being dirty white with dark centres, the 

 general colour of the neck, mantle, and chest brownish grey, and of 



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