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Adult female.— Wing 125-134 (130.2); tail 69-79 (74.4); culmen 

 from base 15.3-16.5 (16.0) ; tarsus 33.6-36.4 (35.1) ; middle toe without 

 daw 27.2-32.3 (29.9 mm.).^* 



Range.- — Resident in the humid coastal area from southwestern Wash- 

 ington (Cedarville, Columbia River, San Juan Island, Tacoma, Puget 

 Sound) south through western Oregon (coastal counties, and in the Wil- 

 lamette Valley, including the west slope of the Cascades at least as far 

 south as Eugene) to western California as far as San Luis Obispo County. 



Introduced into Vancouver Island; erroneously (?) reported from 

 Kalama, British Columbia. 



Type locality. — Yaquina, Oreg. 



Oreortyx pictus (not Ortyx picta Douglas) Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 

 642, part; Cat. North Amer. Birds, 1859, No. 473, part; in Cooper, Om. Cali- 

 fornia, Land Birds, 1870, 546, part. — Cooper and Suckley, Rep. Pacific R. R. 

 Surv., xii, book ii, pt. 3, 1860, 225 (Vancouver, Washington, Willamette Valley, 

 Oreg.).— Coues, Check List North Amer. Birds, 1874, No. 390, part.— Baied, 

 Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. North Amer. Birds iii, 1874, 475, part. — American 

 Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, 1886, No. 292, part. — Anthony, Auk, iii, 

 1886, 164 (Washington County, Oreg.). — Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist., iii, 1890, 133 (Kalama, British Columbia, flock of about 20). — Rhoads, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1893, 37 (Nisqually, British Columbia, in- 

 troduced; Tacoma, Wash., indigenous). — Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xxii, 1893, 397, part (Portland, Greg.; Cloverdale and San Francisco, Calif.). — 

 Macoun, Cat. Can. Birds, 1900, 197 (Vancouver Island; introduced). — Mc- 

 Gregor, Pacific Coast Avif ., No. 2, 1901, 5 (California ; Santa Cruz Mountains ; 

 rare; breeds). — Bailey, Handb. Birds Western United States, 1902, 117, part 

 (descr. ; distr.). — ^Judd, U. S. Biol. Surv. Bull., 1905, 58, part (range; habits; 

 food). — Bowles, Auk, xxiii, 1906, 142 (Tacoma, Wash., resident; introduced?). 

 — Kermode, [Visitors' Guide] Publ. Provinc. Mus., 1909, 40 (Vancouver Island; 

 introduced). — Dawson and Bowles, Birds of Washington, ii, 1909, 564 (Wash- 

 ington; habits; distr.). — Macoun and Macoun, Cat. Can. Birds, ed. 2, 1909, 215 

 (Vancouver Island; introd. ; common). 



[Oreortyx] pictus CouES, Key North Amer. Birds, 1872, 237 part. — Sharpe, Hand- 

 list, i, 1899, 44, part. 



0[reortyx] pictus Ridgway, Man. North Amer. Birds, 1887, 191, part; Auk, xi, 1894, 

 195 part (crit. ; range). 



Oreortyx picta Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 196, part ; Nom. North 

 Amer. Birds, 1881, No. 481, part.— Taverner, Birds Western Canada, 1926, 161 

 (Vancouver Island; introd.) ; Birds Canada, 1934, 165, in text (introd.) ; Can. 

 Water Birds, 1939, 176 (Vancouver Island; introd.).— Alford, Ibis, 1928, 196 

 (Vancouver Island). — Clark, Condor, xxxii, 1930, 51 (Mount St. Helena, Napa 

 County, Calif.). 



Oreoortyx pictus Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1859, 236 (Vancouver Island). 



Orortyx pictus CouES, Check List, ed. 2, 1882, No. 574, part. 



0[rortyx] pictus Coues, Key North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1884, 591, part. 



[Oreortyx pictus] Var. pictus Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. North Amer. 

 Birds, iii, 1874, 476, part. 



" Eight specimens from western Washington, Oregon, and California. 



