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Sennett, U. S. Geol. and Geogr. Surv. Terr., Bull. S, No. 3, 1879, 429 (Lomita 

 Ranch, Tex. ; habits ; descr. nest and eggs) . — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.- 

 Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 290, part (Lower Rio Grande Valley; Nuevo Leon).— 

 JuDD, U. S. Biol. Surv. Bull. 2l, 1905, 61, part (range; habits; food).— Lacey, 

 Auk, xxviii, 1911, 206 (Kerrville, Tex.). 



C[allipepla] squamata CouES, Key North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1884, 593, part. 



[Callipepla] squamata CouES, Key North Amer. Birds, 1872, 238, part.— Sclater and 

 Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 138, part. 



Callipepla squammata McCall, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, v, 1851, 222. 



Callipepla squamata castanogastris Brewster, Bull. Nuttall Orn. Oub, viii, 1883, 

 34 (Rio Grande City, s. Tex.; coll. W. Brewster).— American Ornithologists' 

 Union, Check-list, 1886, No. 293a; ed. 2, 1895, No. 293a; ed. 3, 1910, p. 136; 

 ed. 4, 1931, 89.— Sennett, Auk, iv, 1887, 25 (descr. first plumage) .—Beckham, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1888, 656 (16 miles nw. of Beeville, Tex.).— Bendire, 

 Life Hist. North Amer. Birds, i, 1892, 22.— Dwight, Auk, xvii, 1900, 47 (molt). 

 — Phillips, Auk, xxviii, 1911, 74 (San Fernando and Aguas Calientes, Tamau- 

 lipas). — Bangs, Proc. New England Zool. Club, iv, 1914, 100 (range; diagnosis; 

 lower Rio Grande Valley, s. to n. Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, and Coahuila) ; Bull. 

 Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixx, 1930, 159 (type spec, in Mus. Comp. Zool.). — •GuiscoM 

 and Crosby, Auk, xliii, 1925, 532 (Brownsville, Tex.).— Bent, U. S. Nat. Mus. 

 Bull. 162, 1932, 58 (distr.; life hist.).— Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 

 1934, 44. — Hellmayr and Conover, Cat. Birds Amer., i. No. 1, 1942, 230 (syn.; 

 distr.). 



C[allipepla] s[quamata] castanogastris Bailey, Handb. Birds Western U. S., 1902, 

 119 (distr., descr.). — Kelso, U. S. Dept. Agr. Wildlife Research and Manage- 

 ment Leaflet BS-84, 1937, 2 in text (distr.; food). 



[Callipepla] [squamata] castanogastris Burleigh and Lowery, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. 

 Louisiana State Univ., No. 12, 1942, 189, in text (distr.). 



[Callipepla] castanogastris Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 44. 



Callipepla squamata castaneogastris Reichenow and Schalow, Journ. fiir Orn., 

 1885, 456 (reprint of orig. descr.). — Attwater, Auk, ix, 1892, 233 (near San An- 

 tonio, Tex.). 



Subsp. a. Callipepla castaneiventer Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxii, 1893, 

 396 (ne. Mexico and lower Rio Grande Valley, Tex.) ; Handbook Game Birds, 

 ii, 1897, 117 (monogr.). 



C[allipepla] castaneiventer Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 

 291, in text (crit.). 



[Callipepla sq%iamata] Subsp. a. Callipepla castaneiventer Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., xxii, 1893, 396 (Rio Grande City, Fort Duncan, Eagle Pass, Bena- 

 vldes in Duval County, and Laredo, Tex.; Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas). 



CALLIPEPLA SQUAMATA SQUAMATA (Vigors) 



Scaled Partridge 



Adult. — Similar to the corresponding sex of Callipepla squamata pallida, 

 but darker, the forehead and crown washed with wood brown to bufify 

 brown, less distinct from the crest; the interscapulars, nape, sides of 

 breast, and breast somewhat darker — between dark gull gray and light 

 neutral gray ; lower back, rump, and upper tail coverts averaging slightly 

 duskier ; middle of abdomen, in the male especially, more strongly suffused 

 with pale tawny or pale ochraceous-tawny. 



