96 THE GAME BIRDS 
LAND BIRDS. 
109. —BOBW HITE. -QUAIE: 
VIRGINIA PARTRIDGE. 
Colinus virginianus. 
Predominating color reddish-brown, mottled 
and streaked with black and darker brown, 
lighter on the under parts. The male has 
the forehead, line over the eye, and throat 
white, bordered with black, which color is re- 
placed in the female by buff. Bill dull black. 
Legs gray. Eyes dark brown. Length 93 to 
105 inches. Extent 14} to 151 inches. 
Weight about 7 ozs. 
There are two so-called varieties of this 
bird. Its range extends from Massachusetts 
to Texas and westward throughout the east- 
ern United States. The bird described above 
is the one from the northern section. As we 
follow the species southward it gradually be- 
comes smaller and darker colored on the east- 
ern coast, producing the Florida variety 
( Colinus virginianus floridanus), and in the ex- 
treme southwest, becomes more gray, which 
variety is called C. v. texanus, but they are all 
practically bobwhite just the same. 
