252 BIRDS OF NEW ENGLAND AND EASTERN NEW YORK 



ern Massachusetts, and north of that State found only in 

 the valleys where the winters are not severe. (See map, 



p. 15.) It frequents scrubhy 

 growth, where bushes alter- 

 nate with small trees, espe- 

 cially in the neighborhood 

 of farming country. Here 

 the male may be heard from 

 May to August, whistling 

 his vigorous Bob-White, or 

 oh-Bob- White. When sing- 

 ing, the male is often perched 

 on a fence, wall, or limb of 

 a tree, and an answer may bring him flying angrily up. 

 Later in the summer and all through the fall a covey of 

 birds, if scattered, call to each other by a note like the 

 syllable quoit, suggesting a note of the guinea hen. 



Quail tracks may often be seen in the snow ; they are 

 smaller than those of the Grouse, or Partridge, occur in 

 more open country, and are generally more numerous, the 

 Grouse being in winter a more solitary bird. When the 

 Quail is startled, it flies with great speed, and then scales 

 with wings bent downward in a sharp curve. The small size 

 should distinguish a Quail from a Grouse when flying ; the 

 latter, moreover, is not so richly colored, and has a much 

 broader, fan-shaped tail, tipped with black. 



Fig. 73. Bob-white 



SHORE BIRDS: ORDER LIMICOL^ 



TURNSTONES : FAMILY APHRIZIDiE 



Ruddy Turnstone. Arenaria morinella 



9.50 



Ad. — Top of head grayish- white ; breast and line about eye 

 Mack ; back and wings warm reddisli-brown, mottled with black; 



