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McCowN, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, vi, 1853, 10 (Rio Grande Valley up to 

 Ringgold Barracks ; etc. ; habits). — Salle and Parzudaki, Cat. Oiseaux Mexique, 

 1862, 6 (Mexico). — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1869, 364, part 

 (crit.) ; 1870, 538, part (monogr.). — CouES, Check List North Amer. Birds, 

 1874, No. 378. — Beristain and Laukencio, ilem. y Rev. Soc. Cient. "Antonio 

 Alzati," vii, 1894, 220 (Mexico; distr.). 



Olrtalida] vettda Reichenbach, Voll. Nat. Tauben, 1861, 144, part.— Baied, Brewer, 

 and Ridgway, Hist. North Amer. Birds, iii, 1874, 398, footnote, part. 



[Ortalida] vetula Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 252, No. 9502, part. 



Ortalis vetula Sennett, U. S. Geol. and Geogr. Surv. Terr., Bull. 4, No. 1, 1878, 50 

 (Hidalgo, Texas; habits); 5, No. 3, 1879, 426 (Lomita Ranch, Tex.; habits; 

 descr. nest and eggs).— Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxii, 1893, 512, 

 part (Brownsville, Tex.; Sierra Madre above Ciudad Victoria, Aldoma, and 

 Tampico, TamauUpas ; Valles, San Luis Potosi). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1902, 280, part (s. Texas ; Matamoros, Sierra Madre, 

 and Tampico, Tamaulipas ; Valles, San Luis Potosi). 



0[rtalis] vetula Mendizabal, Rev. Soc. Mex. Hist. Nat., i. No. 3, 1940, 180, in 

 text (Mexico). 



[Ortalis] i^etula Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 17, part. 



Ortalis vetula vetula- American Ornithologists' Union, Check List North Amer. 

 Birds, ed. 3, 1910, 146; ed. 4, 1931, 78.— Oberholser, Auk, xxxix, 1922, 247.— 

 Bent, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 162, 1932, 345 (life hist., descr., distr.).— Peters, 

 Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 19.— Cottam and Knappen, Auk, Ivi, 1939, 

 152 (food). — Sutton and Burleigh, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Louisiana State 

 Univ., No. 3, 1939, 28 (Tamaulipas — Gomez Farias and Guem.es) ; Wils. Bull., 

 Iii, 1940, 223 (Tamazunchale, San Luis Potosi) ; Condor, xlii, 1940, 259 (Valles, 

 San Luis Potosi). — Sutton and Pettingill, Auk, lix, 1942, 12 (G6mez Farias 

 region, sw. Tamaulipas; abundance; habits). 



Ortalis v[etitla] vetula Groebbels, Der Vogel, ii, 1937, 165 (breeding biology). 



Ortalida mccalli Baird, Rep. Pacific R.R. Surv., ix, 1858, 611 (Boquilla, Nuevo Leon, 

 ne. Mexico; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.) ; Rep. U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, 

 pt. 2, 1859, 1922 (Boquilla, Nuevo Leon; Rio Grande Valley up to Ringgold 

 Barracks, Texas; habits) ; Cat. North Amer. Birds, 1859, No. 456. 



0[rtalida] mccalli Reichenbach, Voll. Nat. Tauben, 1861, 145 (crit.). 



Ortalida mc-calli Cubas, Cuadro Geogr., Estadistico, Descr. e Hist, de los Estados 

 Unidos Mexicanos, 1884, 169 (common names, Mexico). 



Ortalida maccalli Dresser, Ibis, 1866, 24 (s. Texas). — Baird, Brewer and Ridgway, 

 Hist. North Amer. Birds, iii, 1874, pi. 37, fig. 1. 



0[rtalida] maccalli Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1870, 538, 539 

 (crit). 



Ortalida maccaulii Boucard, Cat. Avium, 1876, 13, No. 326 ("New Mexico"). 



Ortalida vetula, var. maccalli Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. North Amer. 

 Birds, iii, 1874, 398.— Merrill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 159 (Fort Brown, 

 Tex. ; habits ; descr. nest and eggs) . 



Ortalida vetula nmccalli Goode, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 20, 1883, 332. 



Ortalis vetula maccalli Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 9, 195; Nora. 

 North Amer. Birds, 1881, No. 469.— Coues, Check List North Amer. Birds, 

 ed. 2, 1882, No. 552. — American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, No. 311, 

 1886; ed. 2, 1895, No. 311.— Cooke, Bird Migr. Mississippi Valley, 1888, 108 (ne. 

 Mexico; lower Rio Grande Valley). — Bendire, Life Hist. North Amer. Birds, 

 i, 1892, 119, pi. 3, fig. 16.— Dury, Joum. Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist., xviii, 1896, 

 201, figs, (habits in captivity; structure of trachea). — Bailey, Handb. Birds 

 Western United States, 1902, 137 (descr.; distr.). — Bent, Wils. Bull., xxxvi, 



