ORDER GALLINA. 109 
SusGENUS LOPHORTYX Bonaparte. 
Lophortyx Bonar. Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, 42. Type, Zetrao 
californicus SHAW. 
294. Callipepla californica (SHaw). 
California Partridge. 
Tetrao californicus SHAw, Nat. Misc. IX. 1797 (?), pl. ccexlv. 
Callipepla californica GouLD, Mon. Odont. ‘pt. 1. 1844,” pl. xvi. 
[B 474, C 391, R 482, C575.] 
Groc. Dist.— Coast region of California, south to Monterey. 
Introduced in Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. 
294 a. Callipepla californica vallicola Ripcway. 
Valley Partridge. 
Callipepla californica vallicola Ripew. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. VIII. 
1885, 355- 
[B—, C—, R—, C—.] 
Geroc. Dist.— Interior valleys of California and foothills of the 
Sierra Nevada, east to the Panamint Mountains, south to Cape St. 
Lucas. 
295. Callipepla gambelii (GAMBEL). 
Gambel’s Partridge. 
Lophortyx gambeli “ NutTrauu,” Gams. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 
1843, 260. 
Callipepla gambeli GAMBEL, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. n.s. I, 
1849, 219. 
[B 475, C 392, R 483, C 576.] 
Geoc. Dist..— Western Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, southern 
Utah, southern Nevada, southern California in the Colorado Valley, 
and southward into northwestern Mexico. 
Genus CYRTONYX Gou tp. 
Cyrtonyx GouLD, Mon. Odont. “pt. i, 1844, pl. vil.” Type, 
Ortyx massena LESS. = O. montezsume VIG. 
