238 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant on American Gallinae. 
In company with Mr. F. D. Godman, I have very carefully 
read Mr. Nelson's descriptions and remarks^ and have re- 
examined the specimens in the British Museum. Our series 
of Z). macrurus, though small, is apparently more than twice 
as large as that at Mr. Nelson's disposal, and seems to shew 
beyond doubt that his supposed species and subspecies are 
untenable, and that the ditferences pointed out between the 
individuals have no geographical significance. 
2. LoPHORTYX GAMBELi (Cat. B. xxii. p. 403). 
Callipepla gambeli deserticola Stephens, Auk, xii. p. 371 
(1895) [Colorado Desert, California]. 
Callipepla gambeli fulvipectus Nelson, Auk, xvi. p. 26 
(1899) [Rio Mayo, Souora, Mexico]. 
Of the first of these subspecies the Museum possesses typical 
male examples collected by Mr. Stephens himself in the 
Colorado Desert ; of the second we have a female example 
from Hermosillo, Sonora. I am unable to see any reason 
whatever for separating these birds from typical L. gambeli. 
LoPHORTYX LEUCOPROsopoN Rciclienow, Orn. Monatsb. 
iii. pp. 10 and 97, woodcut, ^ ? (1895) ; Grant, Handb. 
Game-Birds, ii. p. 295 (1897). 
This name was given by Dr. Reichenow to birds bred in 
captivity from parents of unknown origin. As suggested by 
him, the parents were probably hybrids, possibly between 
Lophortyx californicus and Eupsychortyx cristatus. 
LoPHORTYx BENsoNi Ridgw. ; fide Sharpe, Hand-list Birds, 
i. p. 44 (1899) [Sonora] . 
I can find no published description of this species. 
1. Oreortyx pictus (op. cit. p. 397). 
Oreortyx pictus Ridgway, Auk, xi. pp. 193-196, pi. vi. 
(1894) ; Grant, Ibis, 1894, p. 570. 
' After the remarks on the sexual and geographical variations 
of this species that have already appeared in the ' Auk"* and 
' Ibis ' {vide supra) , I am surprised to see that in the ' Hand- 
list of Birds' [i. p. 44 (1899)] no less than three species of 
