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Juvenal. — Similar to that of 0. picta palmeri but generally somewhat 

 more grayish above. 



Natal down. — Not distinguishable from that of 0. picta palmeri. 



Adult male.— Wing 125-140 (131.8) ; tail 73-84 (81.7) ; culmen from 

 base 15-17.6 (16.5); tarsus 33.1-38.2 (35.7) ; middle toe without claw 

 28.6-33.8 (30.5 mm.).^" 



Adult female.— Wing 126-135 (129.2); tail 71-79 (75.6), culmen 

 from base 13.4-17.9 (16.1) ; tarsus 32-36.8 (34.8) ; middle toe without 

 claw 27.3-32.9 (29.8 mm.).^^^ 



Range. — Resident in the Transition Zone from southwestern Wash- 

 ington (where, however, introduced) south through Oregon east of the 

 Cascades, and in the Rogue River Valley west of the Cascades (Jackson 

 and Josephine Counties), and east to southwestern Idaho (Indian Creek, 

 Boise Bottom, and Owyhee foothills), south through the Modoc region 

 and the Sierra Nevada of California to about latitude 37°30'N. and to 

 extreme western Nevada (east as far as Landon County) ; known from 

 Esmeralda, Humboldt, Lander, Mineral, Ormsby, and Washoe Counties. 



Formerly to New Mexico, whence its bones have been found in pre- 

 historic, but recent, sites from north of Carlsbad. 



Type locality. — Interior of New California=headquarters of the Ump- 

 qua River near the Calapooia Mountains, Oreg. ; fide Oberholser, Auk, 

 xl, 1923, 82. 



Ortyx picta Douglas, Philos. Mag., v, Jan. 1, 1829, 74 (headwaters of Umpqua River, 

 near the Calapooia Mountains; see Oberholser, Auk, xl, 1923, 82). — Lesson, 

 Traite d'Orn., 1831, 507.— Bailey, Handb. Birds Western United States, 1902, 

 117, part. — Palmer, Condor, xxx, 1928, 277 in text. — Wetmore, Condor, xxxiv, 

 1932, 141 (bones in cave deposits, north of Carlsbad, N. Mex.). — Howard and 

 Miller, Condor, xxxv, 1933, 16 (bones, Organ Mountains, N. Mex.). — Hall, 

 Murrelet, xiv, 1933, 69 in text, 64, footnote (history). — Groebbels, Der Vogel, 

 ii, 1937, 238 in text (care of eggs), 402 in text (parental care). 



0[rtyx] picta Douglas, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, xvi, 1829, 143 ("interior of Cali- 

 fornia, and . . . extending as far northward as 45° north latitude . . . within a 

 few miles of the Columbia Valley"; habits). 



Callipepla picta Gould, Monogr. Odontoph., pt. 3, 1850, pi. 15.— Baird, Rep. Stans- 

 bury's Expl. Great Salt Lake, 1852, 334 (California). — Newberry, Rep. Pacific 

 R. R. Surv., vi, pt. 4, 1857, 93, part (Lassen Butte, Siskiyou, Calapoosa, and 

 Trinity Mountains, n. California; habits). — Blaauw, Ardea, xiv, 1925, 96, in 

 text (California). 



C[dlipepla\ picta Reichenow, Die Vogel, i, 1913, 317. 



Oreortyx pictus Baird, Cat. North Amer. Birds, 1859, No. 473, part ; in Cooper, Om. 

 California, Land Birds, 1870, 546, part. — Coues, Check List North Amer. Birds, 

 1874, No. 390, part.— Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. North Amer. Birds, 

 iii, 1874, 475, part, pi. 63, fig. 5, S23, part (Sierra Nevada, 6,000 to 8,000 ft.).— 

 Nelson, Free. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., xvii, 1875, 364 (Nevada City, Calif.).— 



' Twenty-six specimens from Oregon, California, and Nevada. 

 " Sixteen specimens from Oregon, California, and Nevada. 



