. The birds of North and Middle America : a descriptive catalogue of the higher groups, genera, species, and subspecies of birds known to occur in North America, from the Arctic lands to the Isthmus of Panama, the West Indies and other islands of the Caribbean sea, and the Galapagos Archipelago . Birds. 264 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM Genus CALLIPEPLA Wagler Callipepla Wagler, Isis, 1832, 277. (Type, by monotypy, C. stremta Wagler = Ortyx squamatus Vigors.) Calipcpla (emendation) Haetlaub, Arch, fiir Naturg., 1853, ii, 40. Medium-sized Odontophorinae (wing about 112-127 mm.) wit
. The birds of North and Middle America : a descriptive catalogue of the higher groups, genera, species, and subspecies of birds known to occur in North America, from the Arctic lands to the Isthmus of Panama, the West Indies and other islands of the Caribbean sea, and the Galapagos Archipelago . Birds. 264 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM Genus CALLIPEPLA Wagler Callipepla Wagler, Isis, 1832, 277. (Type, by monotypy, C. stremta Wagler = Ortyx squamatus Vigors.) Calipcpla (emendation) Haetlaub, Arch, fiir Naturg., 1853, ii, 40. Medium-sized Odontophorinae (wing about 112-127 mm.) with 14 rectrices, tail more than two-thirds (but less than three-fourths) as long as wing, crest rather short and bushy with its feathers not conduplicate, neck, chest, and breast conspicuously squamated, and sexes alike in colora- tion. Bill relatively small, the chord of culmen (from extreme base) much less than half the length of tarsus, its depth at base not greater than dis-. XI Figure 16.—Callipepla sqtiamata. tance from anterior end of nasal fossa to tip of maxilla and slightly less than its width at rictus; culmen not very strongly convex, broadly rounded. Outermost primary equal to eighth or very slightly shorter, the third, fourth, and fifth longest. Tail a little more than two-thirds (de- cidedly less than three-fourths) as long as wing, graduated (the gradu- ation about equal to length of first two phalanges of middle toe), the rectrices (14) firm, slightly tapering terminally, but with rounded tips. Tarsus much less than one-third as long as wing, slightly shorter than. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Ridgway, Robert, 1850-1929; Friedmann, Herbert, 1900-1987. Washington : Govt. Print. Off.
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