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174 (295) Lophortyx gambeli gambeli Gambel 
DESERT QUAIL 
Synonyms—Callipepla gambeli; Callipepla gambeli deserticola; Gambel 
Partridge; Gambel Quail; Arizona Quail. 
Status—A bundant resident locally (in the vicinity of streams or springs) on 
the Colorado and Mohave deserts. Recorded north to Amargosa and Death val- 
leys (A. K. Fisher, N. Amer, Fauna no. 7, 1893, p. 29) ; west across the Mohave 
desert to Hesperia (Thurber, Auk, xm, 1896, p. 265), and in the Colorado desert 
to the north flank of the Santa Rosa Mountains (J. Grinnell and Swarth, Univ. 
Calif. Publ. Zool., x, 1913, p. 232), and through San Gorgonio Pass to Banning 
(Gilman, Condor, 1x, 1907, p. 148). Reeorded casually from Los Angeles (J. 
Grinnell, Bds. Los Angeles Co., 1898, p. 19), and San Bernardino (Wall, Auk, x, 
1893, p. 204). Along the western edge of its range this quail occurs at many 
points on common ground with ZL. c. vallicola; several hybrid examples between 
the two species have been recorded. Efforts have been made to introduce the 
desert quail into northern California, as at Folsom, Sacramento County (Belding, 
Land Bds. Pae. Dist., 1890, p. 8) ; but the birds liberated have always promptly 
disappeared—as was to be expected! 
175 (297a) Dendragapus obscurus fuliginosus (Ridgway) 
Sooty GROUSE 
Status—Fairly common locally in the semi-humid northwestern corner of 
the state. Specimens examined from Hay Fork, Trinity County (lL. Kellogg, 
Condor, x1, 1911, p 119), and Kuntz, Trinity County (Mus. Vert. Zool.), show 
themselves to be distinctly of the northwest coast form as contrasted with that 
of the Sierra Nevada. Grouse occur near the coast at Seaview, Sonoma County 
(J. and J. W. Mailliard, MS) ; probably fuliginosus, but specimens not yet ob- 
tained and compared. ; 
176 (297c¢) Dendragapus obscurus sierrae Chapman 
SIERRA GROUSE 
Synonyms—Tetrao obscurus; Canace obscura; Dendragapus obscurus; Den- 
dragapus fuliginosus; Dendragapus obscurus fuliginosus; Sooty Grouse, part; 
Dusky Grouse. 
Status—Common resident of coniferous timber in the upper Transition and 
Canadian zones of northern California from Mount Shasta south along the inner 
coast ranges at least to Mount Sanhedrin (Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 
1904, p. 580; Mus. Vert. Zool.), and along the Sierra Nevada south through the 
Mount Whitney region to the Piute Mountains, Kern County (C. H. Richardson, 
Condor, vi, 1904, p. 135). Also on the Warner Mountains of Modoe County 
(Mus. Vert. Zool.), on the White Mountains, Mono County (A. K. Fisher, N. 
Amer. Fauna no. 7, 1893, p. 30), and on Mount Pinos, Ventura County (A. K. 
Fisher, loc. cit.; probably Henshaw, Rep. Wheeler Surv., 1876, p. 266; J. Grin- 
nell, Auk, xxi, 1905, p. 382; and Willett, Pac. Coast Avif. no. 7, 1912, p. 43). 
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