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4dult male,— Wing 103-112.5 (107.9) ; tail 57-64 (61) ; culmen from 

 the base 13.5-14 (13.7) ; tarsus 28-31 (29.8) ; middle toe without claw 

 25-28 (26.3 mm.).^ 



Adult female.— Wing 98.5-110.5 (107.1) ; tail 50.5-62 (56.3) ; culmen 

 from base 12.5-14 (13.1) ; tarsus 28-31 (29.4) ; middle toe without claw 

 25-28 (26.5 mm.).^ 



Range. — Resident in open country in the Upper and Lower Sonoran 

 Zone from southeastern New Mexico (Carlsbad, Texline, Nara Vasa, 

 saiidhills near Logah; etc.); central and southern Texas (north to the 

 neighborhood of the Brazos River, where it intergrades with the nominate 

 race), south to northeastern Coahuila and Nuevo Leon and to north- 

 central Tamaulipas. 



Introduced, either by itself or mixed with typical virginianus , and now 

 hopelessly mixed beyond the point of subspecific identifiability, into central 

 Colorado, Utah, Idaho, California, Montana, Oregon, Washington, many 

 of the eastern States, and in the West Indies, especially Haiti. 



Type locality,— Above Ringgold Barracks; Tex. 



Oriyx virgini(ma (not Tetrao virginianus Linnaeus) McCall, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Philadelphia, 1851, 220 (sw. Texas; "New Mexico").— Neheling, Bull. Nuttall 

 Orn. Cliib, vii, 1882, 175 (Houston, etc., se. Texas). 



Ortyx virginianus Woodhouse, in Rep. Sitgreaves Expl. Zufii and Colorado Rivers, 

 18^3, 94, (Indian Territory,; Texas e. of San Pedro Riyer), — Baird, Rep. U. S 

 and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt 2, 1859, 22 (e. Texas). 



Colinus virginianus American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, ed. 2, 1895, 106 

 ed. 3, 1910, 134, part.— Friedmann, Auk, xlii, 1925, 543 (lower Rio Grande 

 Valley, Tex.). — Sutton and Burleigh, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool., Louisiana State 

 Univ., No. 3, 1939, 28 (ne. Mexico; common n. Tamaulipas, n. Nuevo Leon). 



Ortyx texamis Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, vi, 1853, 1 (Ringgold 

 Barracks, Tex.; coll. G. N. Lawrence) .^Baird, Rep. Pacific R.R. Surv., ix, 

 1858,' 641 ; Rep. U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. 2, 1859, 22, pi. 24 (Devils 

 River and Laredo, Tex, ; Matamorps, Tama.ulipas; Nuevo Leop) ; Cat. North 

 Amer. Birds, 185?, No. 472. — Heermann, Rep. Pacific R.R. , Surv., x. No. 1, 

 1859, 18 (Pecos River, Tex.). — Baird, Cassin, and Lawrence, Rep. Pacific 

 R.R. Surv., 1860, atlas, pi. 62.— Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 315, 317, in text, 1866, 27 

 (s. Texas).— Gray, Tist Birds Brit. Mus., pt. 5, Gallinae, 1867, 75.- Butcher, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1868, 150 (Laredo, Tex.).— BairU, Breweb, 

 ,and Ridgway", Hist, North Amer. Birds, iii, 1874, pi. 63, figs. 3, 4. — Salvin 

 and GoDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 298, part (s. and w. Texas; 

 , Matamoros, etc., n. Tamaulipas • Hacienda de las Escobas, San Agustin, San 

 Pedro, Vaqueria, Estancia, and Topo Chico, Nuevo Leon?).' 



Oriix' texanUs Cubas, Cuadro Geogr.,'Estadistico, Descr. e Hist, de 16s Estados 

 Unidos Mexicanos, 1884, 175 (commdn names; Mexico). 



[Ortyx virginianus], Var. texanus Coues, Key North Amer.; Birds, 1872, 237. 



Ortyx virginianus . . var. texanus Coues, Check-list North Amer. Birds, 1874, No. 

 389b. 



' Ten specimens of each sex. 



° Some of these localities, at least, may refer, to C. v. maculatus. 



