ORDER GALLING. 137 



Range. — Subarid Upper and Lower Sonoran zones from the Klamath 

 Lake region, Oregon, south throughout California (except humid coast strip 

 and eastern desert region) to Cape San Lucas, Lower California, and east to 

 mountains of western Nevada 



Lophortyz gjlmbeli Gambel. Gambel's QuaiL [295.] 



Lopfwrtyx gambelii "Notttall" Gambel, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 1843, 260. ("Some distance west [= east] of California " [= southern 

 Nevada].) 



Range. — Lower Sonoran desert region of southern California, 

 southern Nevada, Arizona, and southwestern Utah, east to the south- 

 western corner of Colorado, and also in southwestern New Mexico 

 to the Rio Grande Valley and the El Paso region of extreme western 

 Texas, and south into northeastern corner of Lower California and to 

 Guaymas, Sonora. 



Genus CYRTONTX Gould. 



Cj/rtonj/i Gould, Monogr. Odontoph., Ft. I, 1844, pi. vii. Type, by 

 subs, desig., Ortyx massena Lesson = 0. montezuma Vigors (Gray, 

 1855). 



Cyrt6nyx montezumse (Vigors). 



Range. — Central Texas, central New Mexico, and central Arizona 

 south to northern Mexico. 



a. [Cyrtonyz montezumse montezums. Extralimital.] 



b. Cyrtonyz montezumse me^rnsi Nelson. Bleam's Quail. [296.] 



Cyrtonyx montezumw mearngi Nelson, Auk, XVII, July, 1900, 255. 

 (Fort Huachuca, Arizona.) 



Range. — Arid Upper Sonoran and Transition zones from central Arizona 

 and central New Mexico east to central Texas, and south to the mountains 

 of northern Coahuila, Chihuahua, and eastern Sonora. 



Family TETRAONID.S. Grouse, Spruce Partridges, 

 Ptarmigans, etc. 



Genus DENDRAGAPUS Elliot. 



Dendragapus Elliot, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1864, 23. Type, by 

 subs, desig., Telrao obscurus Say (Baird, Brewer and Ridgway, 1874). 



