136 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Callipepla squamata (VIGORS). 



RANGE. Southern border of the United States south to the Valley 

 of Mexico. 



a. Callipepla squamata squamata (VIGORS). Scaled Quail. [293.] 



Ortyx squamatus VIGORS, Zool. Journ., V, 1830, 275. (Dry interior of 

 Mexico.) 



RANGE. 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 castanog&stris BREWSTER. Chestnut-bellied Scaled 



Quail. [293a.] 



Callipepla squamata castanogastris BREWSTER, Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, 

 VIII, Jan., 1883, 34. (Rio Grande City, Texas.) 



RANGE. Lower Sonoran Zone of southern Texas, from Eagle Pass and San 

 Antonio south to northern parts of Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas. 



GENUS LOPHORTTZ BONAPARTE. 



Lophortyx BONAPARTE, Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, 42. Type, by subs, 

 desig., Tetrao calif ornicus SHAW (Gray, 1840). 



Lophdrtyx calif6rnica (SHAW). 



RANGE. Pacific coast region from Oregon south to southern 

 Lower California. 



a. Lophortyx calif ornica calif ornica (SHAW). California Quail. [294.] 



Tetrao California^ SHAW, Nat. Misc., IX, 1798, pi. 345. (California 

 [San Francisco or Monterey?].) 



RANGE. 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 califomica valllcola (RIDGWAT). Valley Quail. [294a.] 



Callipepla californica vatticola RIDGWAY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VIII, 

 1885, 355. (Baird, Shasta Co., California.) 



