468 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Black gular collar of the male .50, or less, in width. 



Reddish tints prevailing ; these nearly continuous on the upper 

 parts, where the mottlings are minute. Distinct black blotches on 

 the scapulars, tertials, and upper part of rump. Wing, 4.25 (Florida, 

 Southern Illinois, Missouri, etc.) to 4.80 (northeastern United 

 States). Hab. Eastern Province of the United States; Jamaica? 



var. virgin ia n ris. 

 Grayish tints prevailing; no continuous color on the upper parts, 

 where the mottlings are coarse and general. No distinct black 

 blotches on the scapulars, etc. Gular black collar narrower. Wing, . 

 4.10 to 4.50. Hab. Plains, from Texas to Kansas (where it grades 



into virginianus) var. texanus. 



Black gular collar much more than .50 in width. 



Black markings predominating in the male. Female hardly dis- 

 tinguishable from that of var. texamis. Wing, 4.10. Hab. Cuba. 



var. cuhanensis.^ 



Ortyx virginianus, var virginianus, Bonap. ^ ^ 



QUAIL; PARTRIDGE; BOB-WHITE. 



Tetrao virginianus, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, ITtiG, 277, 16 (female ?). — Gmelin, 1, 1788, 761. 

 Perdix virginiana, L.vth. Ind. Oni. II, 1790, 650. — Wilson, Am. Orn. VI, 1812, 

 21, pi. .\lvii. — Doi-GUTY's Cab. I, 1830, 37, pi. iv. — Arn. Orn. Biog. I, 1831, 388 ; 

 V, 1839, 564, pi. bixvi. Fcrdic {Orty.r) virginiana, Bosap. Obs. Wils. 1S25, No. 203. 

 Ortyx virginiana., Jakdine, Nat. Library Birds, IV, Game Birds, 101, pi. x. — BoN. 

 List, 1838. —AuD. S)-n. 1839, 199. — Ib. Birds Amer. V, 1842, 59, pi. eclxsxix. — 

 Gould, Mon. Odont. pi. i. — Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 640. — Newton, Ibis, I, 

 255 (Santa Cruz ; Introduced .'). — Bky.a.xt, B. Pr. VII, 1859 (Bahamas ; introduced I). 



— ScLATEK, p. Z. S. 1861, 80 (Jamaica). — March, V. A. N. S. 1863, 303 (Jamaica). 



— Max. Cab. J. VII, 1858, 444. — Gray, Cat. Brit. Mus. V, 1867, 75. — Fowler, 

 Am. Nat. Ill, Dec. 1869, 535 (habits). Pcrdix (Coliuia) virginiana, Ncttall, Man. 

 I, 1832, 646. Tetrao marilandicus, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 277, 18. — Gmelin, I, 

 1788, 761, 17. Pcrdix marilandica, Latham, Ind. Orn. II, 1790, 650. Tetrao minor, 

 Bartram, Ti-avels, 1791, 290 bis. Perdix borealis, Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. — In. 

 Galcrie, II, 44, pi. ccxiv. Orltjx borealis, Steph., Shaw's Zobl. XI, 1819, 377. 

 Virginia Partridge, Latham, Syn. II, ii, 777. Ortyx castaneus, Gould, P. Z. S. X, 

 182. — Ib. Mon. Odont. (A somewhat melanistic plumage, occasionally seen in speci- 

 mens from Iowa, Illinois, etc. ?) 



Sp. Char. Forehead, and line through the eye and along the side of the neck, with 

 chin and throat, white. A band of black across the vertex, and extending backwards on 

 the sides, within the white, and another from the maxilla beneath the eye, and crossing 

 on the lower part of the throat. The under parts are white, tinged with brown anteriorly ; 

 each feather with several narrow, obtusely V-shaped bands of black. The forepart of 

 back, the side of the breast, and in front just below the black collar, of a dull pinkish- 

 red. The sides of body and wing-coverts brownish-red ; the latter almost uniform, with- 

 out indication of mottling. Scapulars and upper tertials coarsely blotched with black, 

 and edged internally with brownish-yellow. Top of head reddish ; the lower part of 

 neck, except anteriorly, streaked with white and black. Primary quills unspotted brown. 

 Tail ash. Female with the white markings of the head replaced by brownish-yellow ; the 

 black ones with brownish. 



1 Ortyx virginianus, var. cubanensis. Ortyx cubancnsis, "Gould." — Gray & JIitcu. Gen. 

 Ill, 514. Ortyx, sp. 2. — GoULD, Mon. Odont. 



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