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Ogilvie-Ghant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxii, 1893, 397, part (Bear Valley, Michi- 

 gan Bluffs, Lake "Begles" = Bigler, i.e. Tahoe, Calaveras County, Sierra 

 Nevada, and Walker's Basin, Calif.; Carson, Nev.).— American Oknitholo- 

 GisTs' Union, Check-list, ed. 2, 1895, 107 ; ed. 3, 1910, 135.— Dwight, Auk, xvii, 

 1900, 46 (molt, etc.).— Woodcock, Oregon Agr. Exp. Stat. Bull. 68, 1902, 25 

 (Oregon range) .—Judd, U. S. Biol. Surv. Bull. 21, 1905, 58, part (range; habits; 

 food). — Seth-Smith, L'Oiseau, x, 1929, 760 (care in captivity). 



[Oreortyx] pictus Coues, Key North Amer. Birds, 1872, 237 part. 



Oreortyx picta Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 438 (Sierra Nevada, Cali- 

 fornia, 4,000 to 8,000 ft. ; habits, etc.). — Herman, Jankiewicz, and Saarni, Con- 

 dor, xliv, 1942, 169 in text (coccidiosis). — Amadon, Auk, Ix, 1943, 226 (body 

 weight and egg weight) . 



O-reortyx picta picta Shelton, Univ. Oregon Bull., new ser., xiv. No. 4, 1917, 20, 26 

 (west central Oregon ; breeds). — Oberholser, Auk, xl, 1923, 84, part (range). — 

 Grinnell, Dixon, and Linsdale, Univ. California Publ. Zool., xxxv, 1930, 210 

 (distr. ; Lassen Peak region, n. California). — American Ornithologists' 

 Union, Check-list, ed. 4, 1931, 91, part. — Gabrielson, Condor, xxxiii, 1931, 112 

 (common. Cascades; nests, Butte Creek, Oreg.).- — Bent, U. S. Nat. Mus., Bull. 

 162, 1932, 43 (habits; distr.).— Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 43, 

 part. — Linsdale, Pacific Coast Avif., No. 23, 1936, 23, 49 (Nevada; resident in 

 mountains of western part). — van Rossem, Condor, xxxix, 1937, 22 (crit. ; tax.; 

 distr.; char.). — Linsdale, Amer. Midi. Nat., xix, 1938, 54 (Toyabe Mountains, 

 Nev.; nest; not common). — Gabrielson and Jewett, Birds Oregon, 1940, 225 

 (Oregon; distr.; descr. ; habits). — Vogt, Condor, xliii, 1941, 162 (Lassen Vol- 

 canic National Park). — Hellmayr and Conover, Cat. Birds Amer., i, No. 1, 

 1942, 228, part (syn. ; distr.).— DixoN, Condor, xlv, 1943, 208 (Kings Canyon 

 National Park, Calif.). 



Oreortyx p\icta] picta Groebbels, Der Vogel, ii, 1937, 167 (data on breeding biology). 



Orortyx picta Coues, Check-list, North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1882, No. 574, part. 



0[rortyx] picta CouES, Key North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1884, 571, part. 



Ortyx plumifera Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1837 (1838), 42 ("California"; 

 coll. David Douglas). — Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 200. 



Ortix plumifera Audubon, Birds Amer., 8vo. ed., v, 1842, 69, pi. 291. 



Perdix plumifera Audubon, Orn. Biogr., v, 1839, 226, pi. 423, figs. 1, 2 (Columbia 

 River). 



Ortyx plumifera Oberholser, Auk, xl, 1923, 83 in text. 



Oreortyx pictus plumifera Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., vii, 1875, 10 (w. Nevada) . — 

 Fisher, North Amer. Fauna, No. 7, 1893, 26 (Cajon Pass, Panamint Mountains, 

 Argus Range, Coso Mountains, near Owens Lake, Sierra Liebre, Sequoia Na- 

 tional Park, etc., Calif.; Mt. Magruder, Nev.). — American Ornithologists' 

 Union, Check-list, ed. 2, 1895, 107; ed. 3, 1910, 135.— Dawson and Bowles, Birds 

 of Washington, ii, 1909, 567 (Washington; habits; distr.). — Taylor, Univ. Calif. 

 Publ. Zool., vii, 1912, 361 (mountains of Humboldt County, Nev., above 5,000 

 ft). 



OreOrtyx pictus plumiferus Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., vii, 1875, 10 (e. of Sierra 

 Nevada, Calif.) ; 13 (Carson City, Nev.). 



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

 Birds, iii, 1874, 476. 



Oreortyx pictus . . . var. plumifera Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., vii, 1875, 39 (Nevada). 



Oreortyx pictus /3 plumiferus Ridgway, Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 601 (Virginia 

 Mountains, near Pyramid Lake, and near Carson, Nev.). 



0[reortyx] p[ictus] plumiferus Bailey, Handb. Birds Western United States, 1902, 

 117. 



