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This species also has been transplanted to southwestern Canada 

 (British Columbia and Manitoba) : the West Indies (Cuba, Jamaica. 

 New Providence, Haiti, Porto Rico, Barbados, St. Kitts, Antigua, 

 St. Croix, and Guadeloupe); New Zealand; England (Norfolk); 

 Sweden; Germany (Hanover) ; France; and China (Kashing). The 

 introductions in the West Indies (in some instances the Cuban form, 

 C. v. cubanensis) have been more or less successful, but so far as 

 known all European and Asiatic attempts to acclimatize this bird 

 have been total failures. 



The foregoing distribution covers the range of the entire species, 

 which is subdivided into three subspecies. C. v. floridanus occupies 

 the whole of Florida from the vicinity of Gainesville, Palatka, and 

 Tarpon Springs southward. C. v. texanus occupies central and 

 southern Texas, from southeastern New Mexico to northeastern 

 Mexico. Typical virginianus occupies the rest of the range in East- 

 ern and Central United States. 



Egg dates. — Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut: 22 

 records, May 20 to October 10; 11 records, June 5 to July 28. New 

 York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania : 18 records, May 21 to August 

 31 ; 9 records, June 7 to July 16. Virginia, Kentucky, and Kansas : 

 18 records, May 14 to September; 9 records, June 2 to July 23. 

 South Carolina and Georgia : 15 records, April 24 to September 16 ; 

 8 records, May 21 to June 18. Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa: 31 rec- 

 ords, April 28 to October 16 ; 16 records, June 2 to July 13. 



Florida {floridanus) : 46 records, April 19 to July 26; 23 records. 

 May 13 to June 8. 



Texas {texanus) : 50 records, March 18 to August 19; 25 records, 

 May 11 to June 2. 



COLINUS VIRGINIANUS FLORIDANUS (Coues) 

 FLORIDA BOBWHITE 



HABITS 



The Florida bird is merely a small, dark variety of the common, 

 northern bobwhite. It is confined entirely to the peninsula of Flor- 

 ida, where it is universally common and generally distributed in all 

 the drier portions of the State, except in the extreme north and the 

 extreme south; in the north it intergrades with the northern form 

 and in the south with the still smaller and darker Cuban form. 



If due allowance be made for the different environment in which 

 they live, the Florida birds will be found in similar localities to those 

 chosen by their northern relatives and their habits are essentially 

 the same. Nearly everything I have written about the northern birds 

 applies equally well to the southern. They are equally fond of the 



