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Subgenus LOPHORTYX Bonaparte. 



Lophortyx Bonap. Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, 42. Type, Tetrao 

 californicus Shaw. 



294. Callipepla calif ormca (Shaw). 



California Partridge. 



Tetrao californicus Shaw, Nat. Misc. IX. 1797 (?), pi. cccxlv. 

 Callipepla californica Gould, Mon. Odont. "pt. i. 1844," pi. xvi. 

 [B474, C 391, R482, Cs7S-] 

 Geog. Dist. — Coast region of California, south to Monterey. 

 Introduced in Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. 



294 «. Callipepla californica vallicola Ridgway. 



Valley Partridge. 



Callipepla californica vallicola Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. VIII. 

 1885,355. 



[B— , C— R— , C— .] 

 Geog. Dist. — Interior valleys of California and foothills of the 

 Sierra Nevada, east to the Panamint Mountains, south to Cape St. 

 Lucas. 



295. Callipepla gambelii (Gambel). 



Gambel's Partridge. 



Lophortyx gambelii "Nuttall," Gamb. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 



1843, 260. 

 Callipepla gambeli Gambel, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. n. s. I, 

 1849, 219. 



[B 475, C 392, R 483, C 576.J 

 Geog. Dist. — Western Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, southern 

 Utah, southern Nevada, southern California in the Colorado Valley, 

 and southward into northwestern Mexico. 



Genus CYRTONYX Gould. 



Cyrtonyx Gould, Mon. Odont. " pt. i, 1844, pi. vii." Type, 

 Ortyx massena Less. = O. montezumce Vig. 



