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(Washington). — ^Hellmaye and Conover, Cat. Birds Amer., i, No. 1, 1942, 232 



(syn. ; distr.). 

 Lophortyx c[alifornicd] Dunlavy, Auk, lii, 1935, 428 (ecol., distr.). — Groebbels, 



Der Vogel, ii, 1937, 167 (data on breeding biology). 

 Lophortyx c[alifomica] calif omica Marshall and Leatham, Auk, lix, 1942, 44 



(Great Salt Lake Islands, Utah) .— Amadon, Auk, Ix, 1943, 226 (body weight 



and egg weight). 



LOPHORTYX CALITORNICA BRUNNESCENS Ridgway 



California Quail 



Adult. — Similar to the corresponding sex of the nominate race but 

 darker, the upperparts much browner, the back and upper surface of 

 the wings olive-brown to almost Dresden brown in fresh plumage; the 

 breast in the male slightly deeper and more slate colored; in the female 

 the breast is more olive-brownish, less grayish than in the typical form. 



Juvenal. — Similar to that of the nominate race but with the upper- 

 parts more suffused with tawny-olive, the lower parts with an ochraceous 

 wash, and the dark markings averaging greater in size both above and 

 below. 



Natal down. — Similar to that of the typical form. 



Adult male.— Wing 108-119 (113.6) ; tail 85-94 (88.9) ; culmen from 

 base 14.8-16.5 (15.7) ; tarsus 30-34 (32.4) ; middle toe without claw 26.5- 

 30.5 (27.9 mm.). ^3 



Adidt female.— Wing 106-113 (110); tail 79.5-88 (83.5); culmen 

 from base 14.5-16 (15.2); tarsus 29-34.5 (31.4); middle toe without 

 claw 26-29.5 (27.4 mm.)." 



i?an^^.— Resident in the humid coastal area of California from the 

 northern border south to Santa Cruz County. Often recorded in literature 

 as extending north to southwestern Oregon, but no specimens of this 

 form have ever been taken there.''* 



Introduced into Hawaii, New Zealand, Chile, and locally in western 

 United States (Washington, Colorado, etc.) and Vancouver Island, 

 Canada. 



Type locality. — San Francisco, Calif .''^ 



P[erdix] calif omica Latham, Index Orn. Suppl., 1801, p. Ixii. 



Perdix californica Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., xxv, 1817, 259. — Bonaparte, 

 Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, ii, pt. 1, 1826, 125 ; Contr. Maclurian Lye, i, 

 1827, 22.— Lesson, Traite d'Orn., 1831, 507.— Nuttall, Man. Orn. United States 

 and Canada, Land Birds, 1832, 655, part.— Audubon, Orn. Biogr., v, 1839, 152, pi. 

 413. 



" Twenty-five specimens. 

 " Eleven specimens. 



■" Gabrielson and Jewett, Birds of Oregon, 1940, 222. 



"" Specimens from the east side of San Francisco Bay are typical L. c. calif omica, 

 and so the type locality must be on the western side of the Bay. 



