136 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Gallipgpla squam&ta (Vigors). 



Range. — Southern border of the United States south to the Valley 

 of Mexico. 



a. Callipepla squamata sqnamata CVioors). Scaled Quail. [293.] 



Ortyx gquamatus Vigors, Zool. Joiim., V, 1830, 275. (Diy interior of 

 Mexico.) 



Range. — Upper and Lower Sonoran zones from central Arizona to western 

 Texas, north to southern Colorado and over most of the Panhandle of Texas, 

 east nearly to central Texas, and south to the Valley of Mexico. 



h. Callipepla squamata castanog&stris Brewsteb. Chestnut-bellied Scaled 

 Quail. [2g3a.] 



Callipepla squamata castanogastris Brewster, BuU. Nuttall Om. Club, 

 VIII, Jan., 1883, 34. (Rio Grande City, Texas.) 



Range. — Lower Sonoran Zone of southern Texas, from Eagle Pass and San 

 Antonio south to northern parts of Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas. 



Genus LOPHORTTX Bonaparte. 



Lophortyx Bonaparte, Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, 42. Type, by subs, 

 desig., Tetrao calif ornicus Shaw (Gray, 1840). 



Loph6rtyx calif fiinica (Shaw). 



Range. — Pacific coast region from Oregon south to southern 

 Lower California. 



a. Lophortyx californica califomica (Shaw). California QuaiL [294.] 



Tetrao californicut Shaw, Nat. Misc., IX, 1798, pi. 345. (California 

 [San Francisco or Monterey?].) 



Range. — Humid Transition and Upper Sonoran zones of Pacific coast 

 region from southwestern Oregon south to Monterey County, California; 

 introduced into Vancouver Island, Washington, and Colorado. 



6. Lophortyx califomica valUcola (Ridgwat). Valley Quail. [294a.] 



Callipepla californica vaUicola Ridgwat, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VIII, 

 1885, 355. (Battd, Shasta Co., California.) 



