Oeder GALLIN^E. Gallinaceous Birds. 



Suborder PH ASIAN I. Pheasants, Grouse, Partridges, 

 Quails, etc. 



Family TETRAONID^. Grouse, Pahtrid(;es, etc. 



Subfamily PERDICIN^. PAirrHiixiEs. 



Gexus COLIN us Lessox. 



COLINUS VIRGINIANUS (Lixx.). 



126. Bob-white. (2^9) 



Coronal feathers erectile, but not forming a true crest. Foi-ehead, super- 

 ciliary line and tliroat, white, bordered with black ; crown, neck all round and 

 upper part of breast, brownish-red; other under parts, tawny-whitish, all with 

 more or fewer doubly crescentic black bars; sides, broadly streaked with 

 brownish-red; upper parts, variegated with chestnut, black, gray and tawny, 

 the latter edging the inner quills. Female: — Known by having the throat buff 

 instead of the wliite, less black al)out the foreparts, and general coloi-s less 

 intense, rather sniallei' than tlie male. Length, 9-10; wing, 45-5: tail, "ii-.S. 



H.\B. — Eastern United States and southern Canada, from southern Maine to 

 the Soutli Atlantic and (iulf States, west to Dakota, eastern Kansas and eastern 

 Te.xas. 



