238 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant on American Gallinae. 



In company with Mr. F. D. Godman, I have very carefully 

 read Mr. Nelson's descriptions and remarks, and have re- 

 examined the specimens in the British Museum. Our series 

 of D. macrurus, though small, is apparently more than twice 

 as large as that at Mr. Nelson's disposal, and seems to shew 

 beyond doubt that his supposed species and subspecies are 

 untenable, and that the differences pointed out between the 

 individuals have no geographical significance. 



2. LoPHORTYx GAMBELi (Cat. B. xxii. p. 403). 



Callipepla gambeli deserticola Stephens, Auk, xii. p. 371 

 (1895) [Colorado Desert, California]. 



Callipepla gambeli fulvipectus Nelson, Auk, xvi. p. 26 

 (1899) [Rio Mayo, Sonora, Mexico]. 



Of the first of these subspecies the Museum possesses typical 

 male examples collected by Mr. Stephens himself in the 

 Colorado Desert ; of the second we have a female example 

 from riermosillo, Sonora. I am unable to see any reason 

 whatever for separating these birds from typical L. gambeli. 



LoPHORTYX LEUCOPROSOPON Rcichcnow, Orn. Monatsb. 

 iii. pp. 10 and 97, woodcut, S ? (1895); Grant, Handb. 

 Game-Birds, ii. p. 295 (1897). 



This name was given by Dr. Reichenow to birds bred in 

 captivity from parents of unknown origin. As suggested by 

 him, the parents were probably hybrids, possibly between 

 Lophortyx californicus and Eiipsychortyx cristatus. 



LoPHORTYx BENsoNi Ridgw. ; fide Sharpe, Hand-list Birds, 

 i. p. 44 (1899) [Sonora] . 



I can find no published description of this species. 



1. Oreortyx pictus (op. cit. p. 39/). 



Oreoriyx pictus Ridgway, Auk, xi. pp. 193-196, pi. vi. 

 (1894) ; Grant, Ibis, 1894, p. 570. 



After the remarks on the sexual and geographical variations 

 of this species that have already appeared in the ' Auk ' and 

 ' Ibis ' {vide supra) , I am surprised to see that in the ' Hand- 

 list of Birds' [i. p. 44 (1899)] no less than three species of 



