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Lophortyx californicus vallicola (Ripew.). 
VALLEY PARTRIDGE. 
Lophortyz californica (not Tetrao californicus SHaw) Barn, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 
Phila., 1859, 301 (Cape St. Lucas). Bextpine, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V. 
1888, 544 (Cape Region), 547 (Pichalinque Bay). 
Lophortyx californicus (not Tetrao californicus SHaw) Barrp, /. c., 805 (Cape St. 
Lucas). Barrp, Brewer, and Ripeway, Hist. N. Amer. Birds, III. 1874, 
482, part (breeding at Cape St. Lucas). 
Callipepla californica vallicola Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., II. 1889, 
276 (Cape Region; Pichalinqgue Bay). Townsenp, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 
XIII. 1890, 186 (Cape St. Lucas). Benpire, Life Hist. N. Amer Birds, pt. 
I. 1892, 29 (descr. eggs from Cape St. Lucas). 
The specimens collected by Mr. Frazar are slightly paler than my examples 
from California, and their bills average a little heavier, but these differences are 
neither well marked nor constant. 
The Valley Partridge is very common, and of course resident, throughout the 
low country of the Cape Region. Mr. Frazar found it in the greatest numbers 
at Triunfo and San José del Rancho. About La Paz it was not numerous, and 
none were seen on the Sierra de la Laguna. The latter fact is somewhat re- 
markable, for on San Pedro Martir, in the northern part of Lower California, 
Mr. Anthony has met with large flocks at an altitude of 8,200 feet. Mr. 
Bryant mentions a nest containing thirteen eggs found at Calmalli on April 
13, 1889. The bird is apparently generally distributed over the entire Penin- 
sula, excepting, as just stated, on the high mountains south of La Paz. It also 
occurs in the interior of California, being replaced in the coast districts of that 
State by the typical form, L. californicus. Mr. Ridgway informs me that he 
was mistaken in stating (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V. 1883, 533) that the Plumed 
Quail (Oreortyx pictus plumiferus) had been taken by Mr. Xantus at Cape St. 
Lucas, and that he knows of no good evidence to show that it has ever occurred 
in the Cape Region. 
Columba fasciata vioscae Brewst. 
Viosca’s PIGEON. 
Columba flavirostris CoorEer, Orn. Cal., 1870, 508, part (Cape St. Lucas). Coves, 
Check List, 1873, 73, no. 368, part. 
[Columba] flavirostris Cours, Key N. Amer. Birds, 1872, 225, part (Cape St. Lucas). 
Columba fasciata (not of Say) Ripgway, Nom. N. Amer. Birds (Bull. U. S. Nat. 
Mus., no, 21), 1881, 40, no. 456, part; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V. 1883, 538, 
footnote (Cape St. Lucas; Miraflores). Cours, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, 91, 
no. 539, part. Brtpine, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VI. 1888, 850 (Victoria 
Mts.). A. O. U.,Check List, 1886, 178. 179, no. 812, part. 
