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169 (292) Oreortyx picta picta (Douglas) 
PAINTED QUAIL 
Synonyms—Callipepla picta, part; Oreortyx picta plumifera, part; Ortyx 
picta, part; Mountain Partridge; Mountain Quail, part. 
Status—Common resident of the Transition and Boreal zones in parts of the 
narrow humid coast belt, at least from Humboldt County south to Sonoma 
County ; also sparingly south of San Francisco Bay in the Santa Cruz Mountains 
(MeGregor, Pac. Coast Avif. no. 2, 1901, p. 5), and in the coast ranges of Mon- 
terey County: several record stations, south to Big Creek (Jenkins, Condor, vim, 
1906, p. 125). Monterey County specimens examined are so nearly intermediate 
between picta and plumifera, that they might with equal propriety be referred 
to under the latter name. Easternmost records at the north: Helena, Trinity 
County (lL. Kellogg, Condor, xm, 1911, p. 119), and Mt. Sanhedrin (Mus. Vert. 
Zool.) . 
170 (292a) Oreortyx picta plumifera (Gould) 
Mountain QUAIL 
Synonyms—Callipepla picta, part; Ortyx picta, part; Ortyx plumifera; 
Oreortyx picta, part; Oreortyx picta confinis; Plamed Partridge; Plumed Quail; 
San Pedro Quail. 
Status—Abundant resident of semi-arid and arid parts of the Transition 
zone almost throughout the state: In northern California, along the inner coast 
ranges from Mt. St. Helena (W. K. Fisher, Condor, 1, 1900, p. 136) north to the 
Siskiyou Mountains (M. P. Anderson and J. Grinnell, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sei. 
Phila., 1903, p. 6); thence east through the Shasta and Modoe regions to the 
Warner Mountains (Mus. Vert. Zool.) ; south along both slopes of the Sierra 
Nevada to the Tehachapi Mountains (Belding, Land Bds. Pac. Dist., 1890, p. 9) ; 
also on the desert ranges east and south of Owens Valley: Panamint, Inyo, Argus 
and Coso mountains (A. K. Fisher, N. Amer. Fauna no. 7, 1893, p. 26); in the 
southern coast ranges from the Santa Ynez Mountains of Santa Barbara County 
(Streator, Orn. & Ool., x1, 1886, p. 67) and Mt. Pinos, Ventura County (J. Grin- 
nell, Auk, xxi, 1905, p. 381) southeast throughout the Sierra Liebre, San Gabriel, 
San Bernardino and San Jacinto ranges to the Santa Rosa (Mus. Vert. Zool.), 
Palamar (McGregor, Bull. Cooper Orn. Club, 1, 1899, p. 67) and neighboring 
mountains; also through the Cuyamacas (J. G. Cooper, Amer. Nat., vit, 1874, p. 
17), to Campo. (W. E. Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2nd ser., 1, 1889, p. 276) 
and Mountain Spring (Mus. Vert. Zool.), the last two localities being close to 
the Mexican line in San Diego County. There is a slight vertical migration of 
this quail in the Sierra Nevada (Belding, Zoe, 1, 1892, p. 233). On the eastern 
bases of the southern ranges this quail occurs about springs well out onto the 
desert. 
The mountain quail inhabiting extreme southern California has been per- 
sistently referred to another form, O. p. confinis; but examples at hand in fresh 
fall plumage, from the Cuyamaca and adjacent mountains close to the Mexican 
line, show themselves to be identical with the bird of the central Sierra Nevada. 
(See Grinnell and Swarth, Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., x, 1913, pp. 229-230.) 
