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Adult male.— Wing 116-119 (117.7); tail 89.5-90 (89.7); culmen 

 from base 14.5-16 (IS) ; tarsus 33-35 (34.1) ; middle toe without claw 

 27.5-29 (28.3 mm.).'o 



Adult female.— Wing 113.5-117 (115.7) ; tail 87.5-88 (87.8) ; culmen 

 from base 14.5-16 (14.8) ; tarsus 32-33 (32.3) ; middle toe without claw 

 27-28 (27.6 mm.).'* 



Range. — Resident on Santa Catalina Island, Calif. 



Type locality. — Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, Calif. 



Lophortyx californicus (not Tetrao californicus Shaw) Baird, in Cooper, Orn. 

 California, Land Birds, 1870, 549, part (Santa Catalina Island) . 



Callipepla californica vallicola (not of Ridgway) Grinnell, Auk, xv, 1898, 234 

 (Santa Catalina Island) .—Howell, Pacific Coast Avif., No. 12, 1917, 52, part 

 (Santa Catalina Island; crit.). 



Lophortyx catalinensis Grinnell, Auk, xxiii, 1906, 262 (Avalon, Santa Catalina 

 Island, Santa Barbara group, Calif.; coll. J. Grinnell); Condor, x, 1908, 94 

 (crit.). — Childs, Warbler, iii, 1907, 1, col. pi. (eggs; descr. nest and eggs). — 

 Richardson, Condor, x, 1908, 66 (Santa Catalina Island).— Oberholser, Auk, 

 xxxiv, 1917, 194 (crit.). — Grinnell, Univ. California Publ. Zool., xxxviii. No. 

 3, 1932, 270 (type loc. ; crit). 



Lophortyx californica catalinensis Grinnell, Pacific Coast Avif., No. 8, 1912, 10 

 (California; listed) ; No. 11, 1915, 59 (Santa Catalina Island) ; Condor, xxxiii, 

 1931, 38 (crit.).— Oberholser, Auk, xxxiv, 1917, 194 (crit.) ; xxxv, 1918, 206.— 

 Grinnell, Bryant, and Storer, Game Birds California, 1918, 537 (distr.). — 

 Dawson, Birds California (stud, ed.), iii, 1923, 1578 (California; habits; distr.). 

 —American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, ed. 4, 1931, 89 (distr.). — 

 Bent, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 162, 1932, 70 (habits; distr.).— Willett, Pacific 

 Coast Avif. No. 21, 1933, 49 (abundant; Catalina Island; considers this race 

 only doubtfully distinct) . — Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 45. — 

 Hellmayr and Conover, Cat. Birds Amer., i, No. 1, 1942, 234 (syn. ; distr.). 



Lophortyx [californica] catalinensis Dickey and van Rossem, Condor, xxiv, 1922, 

 34, in text (crit.; maintains its validity). 



LOPHORTYX CALIFORNICA PLUMBEA GrinneU 



San QuiNTfN Valley Quail 



Adult male. — Similar to that of the nominate race but with the back 

 more grayish in fresh plumage, having little or no brownish suffusion ; 

 the breast is neutral gray, by which darker tone it may be distinguished 

 from L. c. orecta (in which the breast is light neutral gray). 



Adult female. — Similar to that of the nominate race but much more 

 grayish, less brownish above; the breast is mouse gray (as opposed to 

 grayish drab to light grayish drab in the races achrustera, canfleldae, and 

 orecta. 



Adult male.— Wing 102-115 (107.3) ; tail 77-88.5 (83) ; culmen from 

 base 13.8-15.5 (14.5); tarsus 28-33 (30.9); middle toe without claw 

 24-27.5 (25.8 mm.)." 



™ Three specimens of each sex. 

 "Eighteen specimens. 



