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ff. Breast feathers not avellaneous to wood brown, not vermiculated, but 



broadly tipped with white to buff, subterminally barred with fuscous. 



g. Upperparts with much hazel to pale chestnut, especially on the 



back; the upper tail coverts decidedly brownish (lowlands of 



southern Veracruz). 



Colinus virginianus godmani, ad. 9 (p. 336) 



gg. Upperparts with little or no hazel or pale chestnut but decidedly 



grayish wood brown ; upper tail coverts grayish (eastern base of 



the Cordillera in Veracruz from Jalapa to the Isthmus of 



Tehuantepec) Colinus virginianus pectoralis, ad. ? (335) 



COLINUS VIRGINIANUS VIRGINIANUS (Linnaeus) 



Eastern Bobwhite 



Adult male (normal phase). — Forehead and broad superciliary stripe 

 extending back to the sides of the nape white, the forehead usually very 

 narrowly interrupted at the base of the culmen by the black of the ante- 

 rior part of the crown which extends posteriorly as a narrow black 

 upper margin to the superciliaries ; rest of crown and occiput hazel to 

 dark russet, many of the coronal feathers blackish on the basal two- 

 thirds, this color often showing through as spots, and many of the 

 occipital feathers laterally, but not terminally, edged with pale bufify 

 which also often shows through as streaks ; feathers of nape bicolored, 

 their median portion russet to chestnut, separated by a blackish line 

 on each web from the broad lateral white edgings, the more lateral nape 

 feathers tending to have broader white marks on their outer than on 

 their inner webs ; interscapulars and upper back Mikado brown to Ver- 

 ona brown edged and clouded with light drab to smoke gray, and later- 

 ally incompletely barred with blackish, the more posterior feathers fre- 

 quently completely crossed by these bars ; scapulars dark hazel to amber 

 brown very heavily blotched, and basally irregularly barred with .black; 

 and broadly edged, especially on their inner webs with pale warm bufif; 

 upper wing coverts orange-cinnamon to cinnamomeous Mikado brown, 

 the lesser coverts often with largely grayish median portions, and the 

 feathers incompletely, narrowly barred with dusky along their edges; 

 secondaries between pale clove brown and hair brown, the innermost 

 ones suffused with hazel terminally and crossed by narrow, but widely 

 spaced grayish white wavy bars each of which is narrowly bordered 

 with blackish, the intervening dark area sparingly vermiculated with 

 dusky, and the feathers edged on both webs, and narrowly tipped, with 

 pinkish buff to pale pinkish bufif; remaining secondaries similar but with 

 the pale bars restricted to the outer half of the outer web, which alone 

 is edged with pinkish buff (in some specimens the edging and the in- 

 complete external bars are heavily washed with pale russet) ; primaries 

 uniform, between pale clove brown and hair brown ; feathers of middle 

 of upper back dark amber brown to almost chestnut, subterminally very 



