BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA '303 



Adult male.— Wing 107-115 (111.3) ; tail 77-94 (83.8) ; culmen from 

 base 15-16.1 (15.6); tarsus 28.6-31 (29.7); middle toe without claw 

 25.6-29.4 (27.6 mm.). »* 



Adult jemale.—Wmg 108-115 (112.2); tail 80-87 ■ (83.8) ; culmen 

 from base 14.9-15.4 (15.1) ; tarsus 28.9-29.3 (29.0) ; middle toe with- 

 out claw 25.3-27.1 (26.1 mm.). ^^ 



Range. — Resident in Sonora from close to 'the northern boundary to 

 Guaymas and San Javier; in extreme southern Sonora it is replaced by 

 the nominate form. 



Type locality. — Campos ^= 18 miles north of Cumpas, Sonora. 



(?) Callipepla douglassii Gambel, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, i, 1847, 218, 



part ("common about the Gulf" [of California]). 

 Lophortyx douglasi Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxii; 1893, 404, part 



(Ysleta, Guadalupe, Quiriego, and Sierra de Alamos, Sonora). — Salvin and 



GoDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 293 (Ysleta, Campos, Guadalupe, 



Quiriego, Sierra de Alamos, and Nacori, Sonora). 

 Callipepla elegans bensoni Ridgway, Forest and Stream, xxviii. No. 6, 1887, 106; 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, 148 (Campos, Sonora; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 

 C[allipepla] elegans bensoni Ridgway, Man. North Amer. Birds, 1887, S8S; ed. 2, 



1896, 587. 

 [Lophortyx] bensoni Sharpe, Hand-List, i, 1899, 44. 

 Lophortyx bensoni Nelson, Auk, xix, 1902, 239 (crit.). 

 Lophortyx douglasi bensoni Thayer and Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, xix, 



1906, 18 (Opodepe, north-central Sonora). 

 Lophortyx douglasti bensoni van Rossem, Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist., vi, 1931, 



246 (Sonora; Pesqueira, Tecoripa, San Javier, Guaymas; spec). — Peters, 



Check-list Birds World, ii, 1934, 46. — Hellmayr and Conover, Cat. Birds Amer., 



i. No. 1, 1942, 236 (syn.; distr.). 

 [Lophortyx douglasii] bensoni Friedmann, Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., xxxiii, 



1943, 370 (crit.). 

 Callipepla elegans (not Ortyx elegans Lesson) Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 



V, 1893, 33 (Nacori, Sonora). 



LOPHORTYX DOUGLASII TERES Friedmann 



Jalisco Crested Quail 



Adult male. — Like that of Lophortyx douglasii douglasii , but with 

 shorter wing, 101-104 (as opposed to 109-114) ; with the longest sec- 

 ondaries reaching the tips of the primaries (in douglasii the primaries 

 extend 15-20 mm. beyond the secondaries) in the closed wing; and 

 with the general coloration darker, the reddish brown on the wings 

 chestnut instead of Sanford's brown (as in douglasii), the lower back 

 and rump more brownish; the gray of the breast darker — neutral gray 

 (pale neutral gray in douglasii) and the white spots on the abdomen 

 with blackish ringlike edges. 



°* Ten specimens. 

 " Five specimens. 



