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bordered behind and internally by black ; a second commences at the pos- 

 terior border of the eye, and then borders the black of the chin and throat 

 laterally and behind, the black reaching up to the eye and bordered anteriorly 

 by a white line from eye to bill ; belly pale buff, with a large spot in the 

 centre ; the flanks streaked with white. The diagnoses of the species are as 

 follows : — 



Vertex and occiput light smoky olive-brown ; forehead whitish ; patch in 

 the middle of the belly orange-chestnut ; feathers of breast with narrow 

 black edges ; sides of body olivaceous-plumbeous . . . . L. californicus. 



Vertex and occiput clear chestnut-brown ; forehead blackish ; patch in 

 middle of belly black ; none of the belly-feathers with black edges ; sides 

 of body bright chestnut ... L. gamhelL 



Lophortyx californicus, Bonap. 



CALIFORNIA QUAIL. 



Tetrao californicus, Shaw, Nat. Misc. pi. cccxlv (prior to 1801). Perdix californica, 

 Latham, Suppl. lud. Orn. II, App. 1801, p. Ixii. — Aud. Orn. Biog. V. 1839, 152, 

 pi. ccccxiii. — HuTCHiXGS, Cal. Mag. 11, 1857, 24 {woodcut of bird and its eggs). 

 Ortyx californica, Stephens m Shaw's Zool. XI, 1819, 384. — Jardine, Game Birds, 

 Nat. Libr. IV, 104, pi. xi. — Cuv. E. An. Illust. ed. Oiseaux, pi. Ixiv. — Bennett, 

 Gardens & Menag. Zool. Soc. II, 29 {woodcut). — AvT>. Syn. 1839, 199. — lb. Birds 

 Auier. V, 1842, 67, pi. ccxc. Pe.rdijc (Ortyx) californica, Bonap. Syn. 1828, 125. 

 Lophortyx californica, Bona?. List, 1838. — Nuttall, Man. I, (2d ed.,) 1840, 789. — 

 Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 644. — Gray, Cat. Brit. Mus. V, 1867, 78. —Cooper & 

 SucKLEY, 226 (to Columbia Elver). — Cooper, Orn. Cal. I, 1870, 549. Callipepla 

 californica, GouLD, Mon. Odont. pi. xvi. — Eeichenbach, Av. Syst. 1850, pi. xxvii. 

 — Newberry, Eep. P. E. E. VI, iv, 1857, 92. 



Sp. Char. Crest black. Anterior half of body and upper parts plumbeous ; the wings 

 and back glossed with olive-brown. Anterior half of head above brownish-yellow, the 

 shafts of the stiff feathers black ; behind 

 this is a white transverse band which 

 passes back along the side of the crown ; 

 within this white, anteriorly and laterally, 

 is a black suffusion. The vertex and 

 occiput are light brown. Chin and 

 throat black, margined laterally and 

 behind by a white band, beginning 

 behind the eye. Belly pale buff an- 

 teriorly (an orange-brown rounded 

 patch in the middle) and white laterally, 

 the feathers all margined abruptly with 

 black. The feathers on the sides of 

 body like the back, streaked centrally 

 with white. Feathers of top and sides 

 of neck with the margins and shafts 

 black. Under tail-coverts buff, broadly 

 streaked centrally with brown. 



Female similar, without the white and black of the head ; the feathers of the throat 

 brownish-yellow, streaked with brown. The buflf and orange-brown of the belly want- 

 ing. The crest short. Length, 9.50; wing, 4.32 ; tail, 4.12. 



Lophortyx californicus. 



