BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 263 



Type locality.— Lang Spring, Mountain Spring Canyon, Argus Moun- 

 tains, Inyo County, Calif. 



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

 642, part (Fort Tejon, Calif.) ; Cat. North Amer. Birds, 18S9, No. 473, Part; in 

 Cooper, Orn. California, Land Birds, 1870, 546, part.— Xantus, Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Philadelphia, 1859, 192, (Fort Tejon).— Coues, Ibis, 1866, 266 (Cajon Pass, 

 San Bernardino Mountains, s. California) ; Check List, North Amer. Birds, 1874, 

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

 1874, 475, part.— American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, 1886, No. 292, 

 part.— Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxii, 1893, 397, part (San Bernar- 

 dino Mountains, and Ballena, Nigger Canyon, and Cuyamaca Mountains, San 

 Diego County, Calif.). 



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

 195, part (crit. ; distr.). 



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

 list, i, 1899, 44, part. 



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

 Amer. Birds, 1881, No. 481, part.— Bailey, Handb. Birds Western United States, 

 1902, 117, part. 



Orortyx pictus Coues, Check List, North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1882, No. 574, part. 



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



Oreortyx picta picta American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, ed. 3, 1910, 135, 

 part; ed. 4, 1931, 91, part.- Oberholser, Auk, xl, 1923, 84, part.— Willett, 

 Pacific Coast Avif., No. 21, 1933, SO (sw. California; common Upper Sonoran 

 zone of foothills up through Transition Zone in the higher mountains). — Peters, 

 Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 43, part.— Hellmayr and Conover, Cat. 

 Birds Amer., i, No. 1, 1942, 228, part (syn.; distr.). 



Callipepla picta Heermann, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. 4, No. 2, 1859, 61 (near 

 Tejon Valley, Calif.; habits). 



Oreortyx picta plumifera (not Ortyx plumifera Gould) Willett, Pacific Coast Avif., 

 No. 7, 1912, 42 (Pasadena, Calif. ; San Gabriel Mountains ; breeding in San An- 

 tonio Canyon; crit.).. — Grinnell, Univ. California Publ. Zool., x, 1913, 228 (San 

 Jacinto Mountains, s. California; habits; crit.) ; Pacific Coast Avif., No. 11, 1915, 

 58, part (mountains of California except Pacific coastal belt). 



Oreortyx pictus plumiferus Grinnell, Pasadena Acad. Sci., Publ. 2, 1898, 19 (Los 

 Angeles Cotmty, CaUf. ; resident) ; Auk, xxii, 1905, 381 (Mount Pifios, Calif.) ; 

 Birds San Bernardino Mountains, 1908, 56 (Breeding). 



Oreortyx picta conjinis American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list North Amer. 

 Birds, ed. 3, 1910, 135, part.— Willett, Pacific Coast Avif., No. 7, 1912, 43, in 

 text (distr.). — Oberholser, Auk, xl, 1923, 84, part (San Bernardino and San 

 Gabriel Mountains, s. Calif.). — Dawson, Birds California (stud, ed.), iii, 1923, 

 1571, part. — Grinnell, Condor, xxvii, 1925, 76 (San Bernardino and San 

 Gabriel Mountains). 



Oreortyx pictus confinis American Ornithologists' Union, Auk, vii, 1890, 61 

 (Check-list No. 2926, part) ; Check-list, ed. 2, 1895, 108, part.— Bendire, Life 

 Hist. North Amer. Birds, i, 1892, 17, part. — Ridgway, Man. North Amer. Birds, 

 ed. 2, 1895, 588, part. 



Oreortyx picta eremophila van Rossem, Condor, xxxix, 1937, 22 (Lang Spring, 

 Mountain Spring Canyon, Argus Mountains, Inyo County, Calif. ; descr. ; distr. ; 

 crit.). 



