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SYSTEMA TIC SYNOPSIS. — GALLING — ALECTOROPODES. 



** Partridge : " Southern aud Middle States, wherever the Euffed Grouse is called " pheasant." 

 $ : Forehead, superciliary line, and throat, white, bordered with black; crown, neck all round, 

 and U})per part of breast, brownish-red ; other under parts tawny- whitish, all with wore or fewer 

 doubly-crescentic black bars ; crissuni rufous; sides broadly striped with brownish-red; upper 

 parts variegated with chestnut, black, gray and tawny, the latter edging the inner quills, form- 

 ing a continuous line wheu the wing is closed. 9 : Known by having the throat buff instead of 

 wliite, less black about the fore-paits, and general coloration subdued. The reddish of this bird is 

 of a peculiar dull pinkish shade. The black cn^sceuts of the under parts are scarcely or not half 

 the width of the intervening white spaces ; the bill is not jet black. Length of $ 10.00-10.50 ; 



Fig. 409. — The Bob White family. (From " Sport with Gun and Rod; " The Century Co., N. Y.) 



extent 15.00-15.50; wing 4.50 to nearly 5.00 ; tail 2.75-3.00. ? 9.50-10.00; extent 14.50- 

 15.00 ; wing 4.25-4.50 ; tail 2.50-2.75. Among the thousands of Bob-whites yearly destroyed, 

 albinotic or melanotic, and other abnonnally colored specimens, are frequently found ; but the 

 percentage of these cases is nothing unusual, and the sportsman must be cautioned against sup- 

 posing that such birds have any status, in a scientific point of vieM^, beyond their illustration of 

 certain perfectly well known variations. Such specimens, however, are interesting and valuable, 

 and should always be preserved. Eastern United States. North to Massachusetts and slightly 

 beyond ; Canada West ; Minnesota. West to high central plains. Up the Missouri to White 

 River. Salt Lake Valley (introduced). The characteristic game bird of this country. Eggs 

 indefinitely numerous, pure white, pointed at one end and very blunt at the other, about 

 1.30X1.00. 



