CANADIAN SPKUCE PARTRIDGE 251 



Canadian Spruce Partridge. CanacJutes canadensis 



canace 

 15.00 



Ad. $ . — Upper parts barred with black and gray; under parts 

 black, many of the feathers bordered or tipped with white ; tail 

 black, tipped with reddish-brown; a line of bare skin above the eye 

 bright red. Ad. 9- — Upper parts barred with black, gray, and 

 pale yellowish-brown ; nnder parts whitish, barred with black. 



Nest, on the ground. Eggs, buffy or pale brownish, spotted 

 with brown. 



The Spruce Partridge is a permanent resident of the co- 

 niferous forests of northern New England and New York. 

 It is rarely seen south of the White Mountains, and is no- 

 where in New England at all common. It is found, as its 

 name suggests, in dense swampy growths of spruce and fir. 

 It is remarkably tame, allowing such a near approach that 

 it should be impossible to confuse it with its relative, the 

 Puffed Grouse, which, except for its ruff, has hardly any of 

 the black shade so characteristic of the Spruce Partridge. 



BOB-WHITES, ETC : FAMILY ODONTOPHORIDiE 



Bob-white ; Quail. Colinus virginianus 



10.00 



Ad. $ . — Line over eye white, bordered above and below with 

 black; top of head reddish-brown, mixed with black; back of neck 

 reddish-brown, mixed with white; back and wings chiefly reddish- 

 brown ; tail gray ; throat ichite ; band across upper breast black ; 

 breast and bell}^ white, barred with black; sides heavily washed 

 with reddish-brown. Ad. 9- — Similar, but throat and line over 

 eye buff; little or no black on the breast. 



Nest, on the ground, in meadows or grain-fields. Eggs, white 

 usuallv more or less stained with lio-ht brown. 



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The Quail is a permanent resident of the Transition 

 Zone, common in southern New England and the lower 

 Hudson Valley, but rare or absent from the upland of west- 



