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Adult female.—Wing 101-110 (105.3) ; tail 78-85 (82.2) ; culnien 

 from base 14-15 (14.5) ; tarsus 28.5-32 (29.8) ; middle toe without claw 

 24-27 (25 mm.). '8 



Range. — Resident in open chaparral country from southwestern San 

 Diego County, Calif. (Dulzura, Campo, and Mountain Spring), through 

 northwestern Baja California, roughly south to latitude 30° N. — the so- 

 called San Quintin subfaunal district; east in canyons to the east base 

 of the Sierra San Pedro Martir, and to San Felipe on the Gulf of Cali- 

 fornia, also on Los Coronados Islands. 



Type locality. — San Jose, alt. 2,500 feet, 45 miles northeast of San 

 Quintin, Baja California. 



Lophortyx calif ornica Nuttall, Man. Om. United States and Canada, Land Birds, 

 ed. 2, 1840, 789, part. — Salle and Paezudaki, Cat. Oiseaux Mexique, 1862, 6 

 (Mexico). — CouES, Check List North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1882, No. 575, part.— 

 Beristain and Laurencio, Mem. y Rev. Soc. Cient. "Antonio Alzate," vii, 1894, 

 219 part. 



Lophortyx californicus Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 644, part; Cat. 

 North Amer. Birds, 1859, No. 474, part.— Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xxii, 1893, 400, part (s. San Diego County, Calif.).— Judd, U. S. Biol. 

 Surv. Bull. 21, 1905, 47, part. 



Callipepla calif ornica Vallicola Bryant, Proc. California Acad. Sci., ser. 2, ii, 1889, 

 276, part (San Quintin, etc., Baja California; descrip. of nest and eggs). — 

 HoLZNER, Auk, xii, 1896, 81, part (s. San Diego County, Calif.). 



Lophortyx calif ornica vallicola Willett, Pacific Coast Avif., No. 7, 1912, 43, part 

 (extreme sw. California). — ^Grinnell, Pacific Coast Avif., No. 11, 1915, 59, part 

 (w. of Colorado Desert, part) ; Univ. California Publ. Zool., xxxii, 1928, 101 

 (extreme n. Baja California). — Howell, Pacific Coast Avif., No. 12, 1917, 52, 

 part (Los Coronados Ids., Baja CaUfornia). — Dawson, Birds California (stud, 

 ed.), iii, 1923, 1576, part (habits; etc.).- — Anthony, Proc. California Acad. Sci., 

 ser. 4, xiv, 1925, 294 (e. of San Quintin, Baja California). — American 

 Ornithologists' Union, Check-list North Amer. Birds, ed. 4, 1931, 89, part 

 (extreme n. Baja California). 



Lophortyx californicus vallicola Thayer and Bangs, Condor, ix, 1907, 136 (Rosario, 

 San Javier, San Andreas, and Rosarito, Baja California). — Wright, Condor, 

 xi, 1909, 100 (Los Coronados Islands, Baja California). 



Lophortyx calif ornica Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1883, 528 (San Quintin 

 Bay, Baja California). 



[Lophortyx] vallicola Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 44, part. 



Lophortyx calif ornica plumhea Grinnell, Condor, xxviii, 1926, 128 (orig. descr. ; 

 San Jose, 45 miles northeast of San Quintin, Baja California; crit.) ; Univ. 

 California Publ. Zool., xxxii, 1928, 101 (distr.). — American Ornithologists' 

 Union, Check-list, ed. 4, 1931, 90 (distr.).— Bent, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 162, 

 1932, 71 (life hist.).— Rowley, Condor, xxxvii, 1935, 163 (nesting; San Telmo to 

 San Fernando, Baja California) . 



Lophortyx californica califomica Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 44, 

 part (n. Baja California s. to lat. 30° N.). — Hellmayr and Conover, Cat. 

 Birds Amer., i. No. 1, 1942, 232, part (n. Baja California, s. to lat. 30° N.). 



"Twelve specimens. 



