136 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
Callipépla squamaéta (Vicors). 
RanGE.— Southern border of the United States south to the Valley 
of Mexico. 
a. Callipepla squamata squamata (Vicors). Scaled Quail. [293.] 
Ortyx squamatus Vicors, Zool. Journ., V, 1830, 275. (Dry interior of 
Mexico.) 
RaNnGE.— Upper and Lower Sonoran zones from central Arizona to western 
Texas, north to southern Colorado and over most of the Panhandle of Texas, 
east nearly to central Texas, and south to the Valley of Mexico. 
b. Callipepla squamata castanogdstris Brewster. Chestnut-bellied Scaled 
Quail. [(293a.] 
Callipepla squamata castanogastris BREwsTER, Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, 
VIII, Jan., 1883, 34. (Rio Grande City, Texas.) 
Rance.— Lower Sonoran Zone of southern Texas, from Eagle Pass and San 
Antonio south to northern parts of Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas. 
GENUS LOPHORTYX Bonaparte. 
Lophortyxr BONAPARTE, Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, 42. Type, by subs. 
desig., Tetrao californicus SHaw (Gray, 1840). 
Lophértyx calif6rnica (SHAW). 
RancE.— Pacific coast region from Oregon south to southern 
Lower California. 
a. Lophortyx californica californica (SHaw). California Quail. [294.] 
Tetrao californicus SHaw, Nat. Misc., IX, 1798, pl. 345. (California 
[San Francisco or Monterey ?].) 
Rance.— Humid Transition and Upper Sonoran zones of Pacific coast 
region from southwestern Oregon south to Monterey County, California; 
introduced into Vancouver Island, Washington, and Colorado. 
b. Lophortyx californica vallicola (Ripaway). Valley Quail. (294a.] 
Callipepla californica vallicola Ripaway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VIII, 
1885, 355. (Baird, Shasta Co., California.) 
