Vol. XIX"I Nelson, Certain North American Gallitice. "^§9 



1902 J \j ^ 



This locality is well within the range of true C. gambeli. He has 

 therefore compared typical birds of the same subspecies and 

 concluded that he is "unable to see any reason whatever for sep- 

 arating these birds [C. g. fulvipectus] from typical Z. gambeli.'" 

 Just what bearing this comparison has on the validity of a sub- 

 species living at a distance in another faunal area is not plain. 

 Lophortyx bensoni {Ridgm.) (= CalUpepla douglasi bejisoni). 

 Mr. Grant states that he " can find no published description of 

 this species," but on page 404 in volume XXII of the ' Catalogue 

 of Birds in the British Museum ' (on the title page of which his 

 name appears as author), under the synonymy of Lophortyx 

 douglasi, he will find cited " CalUpepla elegans bensoni Ridgw. P. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. X, p. 148 (1887) [Campos, Sonora]." In the 

 place thus referred to he will find an extended description of this 

 well marked geographic race. It is also described in Mr. 

 Ridgvvay's ' Manual of North American Birds' (ist ed. p. 585 ; 2d 

 ed. p. 589). 



Colinus virginianus maculatus. " We have a series of 

 birds from the area indicated and Mr. Godman and I are both 

 satisfied that Mr. Nelson's name is a mere synonym of the sub- 

 species C. texamisP This decision can only be understood by 

 the supposition that it is another instance of the comparison of 

 birds that have nothing to do with the case. The Biological 

 Survey collection contains over forty specimens of this subspecies 

 which have been compared with about as many of C. texaniis. 

 The accompanying photograph of typical specimens of C. v. texanus 

 and C. V. maculatus render further comment unnecessary. 



Colinus graysoni nigripectus and Colinus minor.^ Mr. 



' Since writing the notes on these birds I have received additional informa- 

 tion which appears to affirm conclusively my position. In order to test the 

 correctness of my determination of the small and rather dark birds living 

 along the humid basal slope of the Cordillera in Vera Cruz as Cotinus pectoralis 

 (Gould) I recently sent two specimens taken at Jico and Carrizal, near 

 Jalapa, in that State to the British Museum for comparison. These specimens 

 I have considered as typical C. pectoralis, and a similar specimen from Carrizal 

 is shown over that name in the accompanying plate. With the two specimens 

 of^C pectoralis I sent a typical specimen of C. graysoni nigripectus from 

 Atlixco, Puebla. Through the kindness of Mr. Oldfield Thomas and Dr. R. 



