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Figure 18. — Lophortyx calif ornica. 



Range. — Pacific coast district of United States, Baja California, 

 Arizona, New Mexico, extreme western Texas, and southward over west- 

 ern and central Mexico. (Three species.)^* 



'^Lophortyx leucoprosopon Reichenow (Orn. Monatsb., iii, 189S, 11, fig. opp. p. 97) 

 is omitted from this accotmt as it is almost certainly a hybrid between L. gambelii 

 and L. douglasii, and has no locality, being based on two captive birds in a German 

 aviary. 



