BIRDS OF WEST VIRGINIA— WETMORE 407 



Edwards says that the bird was sent from Pennsylvania by John 

 Bartram to Peter Colinson, w^hich would place the type locality in 

 eastern Pennsylvania. The characters outlined above are taken from 

 skins from southeastern New York (Highland Falls and West Point). 

 A bird from Carlisle, Pa., is similar though somewhat more heavily 

 marked. Others come from Piseco, N. Y., and Glenwood in south- 

 eastern Michigan. Birds from near Washington, D. C, and Laurel, 

 Md., are somewhat more heavily barred below but for the present are 

 placed with the typical race. 



Bonasa umhellus togata 



Markings on lower surface abundant, dark, and broad, the cross bars 

 being predominant in the coloration of this area; under tail-coverts 

 with more brown. 



Specimens from Calais, Maine, and Carberry and Rat Portage, 

 Manitoba, are taken as typical of this form. One from Springfield, 

 Mass., also belongs here, as does one from Hunter, in the Catskill 

 Mountains of New York, this bird being somewhat intermediate. 



On careful comparison I find that specimens from Johnstown in 

 western Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, and north- 

 ern Georgia agree with the northern birds. Though very slightly 

 browner above than the average from the north, in view of the rufescent 

 color phase found so commonly in ruft'ed grouse I feel that this ap- 

 parent slight difference is unreliable and of no definite importance. 

 It appears that the subspecies togata extends southward through the 

 mountains as far as Georgia. 



Peters^ attributes birds of the Appalachian region to both um- 

 bellus and togata. 



Family PERDICIDAE 



COLINUS VIRGINIANUS VIRGINIANUS (Linnaeus) 



Eastern Bobwhite 



An adult male was obtained 3 miles north of Big Bend, Calhoun 

 County, May 21, 1936. There is also a bird about three-fourths 

 grown that I found lying dead in the road near the southern limits of 

 Elkins on September 30, 1935. Others were observed near Gilboa, 

 May 15; near Freed, May 21; and near Grantsville, May 26. 



Family PHASIANIDAE 



PHASIANUS COLCHICUS Linnaeus 



Pheasant 



A female from Mercers Bottom, Mason County, taken on October 

 30, 1936, has the reddish brown of the hindneck, and the general 

 color of the upper surface paler than in wild-killed specimens of the 



< Check-list of birds of the world, vol. 2, 1934, p. 40. 



