TETEAONIDJE! — OBONTOPHOBIN^ : PARTRIDGES OR QUAIL. 591 



O. V. florida'na. (Of Florida.) Florida Quail. liather smaller, the $ about the size of 

 the 9 virginianu, but bill relatively larger, aud jet-black ; colors darker, all the black mark- 

 ings heavier, those of the under parts nearly as broad as the intervening white spaces. Florida, 

 and similar specimens in the lower Mississippi Valley ; an approach to the Cuban form 

 (0. cubanensis). 



O. V. texa'na. (Of Texas.) Texas Quail. Size offloridana; colors paler, the prevailing 

 shade rather gray than brown ; upper parts much variegated with tawny. Eggs 1.20 X 0.93. 

 These two are mere climatic varieties of one si)ecies. 



OROR'TYX. (Gr. opos, oros, a mountain ; opTv^, ortux, a quail.) Plumed Quail. Head 

 adorned with an arrowy crest of two slender keeled plumes, 3-4 inches long in the ^ when 

 full- developed ; present in 9 > shorter. Bill aud feet stout ; tarsus equal to the middle toe and 

 claw. Tail about | the wing, broad, rounded, with long coverts. Size large ; colors massed 

 in large areas ; sexes alike. Eggs colored. Oue species. 



O. pic'ta. (Lat. jjicta, pictured, painted. Fig. 411.) Plumed Partridge. Mountain Quail 



of the Californians. (J 9 > adult: Back, wings and tail 

 olive-brown, the inner secondaries and tertiaries bordered 

 with whitish or tawny, forming a lengthwise border in 

 single line when the wings are folded; the primaries fus- 

 cous, the tall-feathers fuscous, minutely marbled with 

 the color of the back. 

 Fore - parts, above 

 and below, slaty- 

 blue (above more or 

 less glossed with 

 the olive shade of 

 the back, below mi- 

 nutely marbled with 

 black) ] the throat 

 chestnut, immedi - 

 ately bordered lat- 

 erally with black, 

 then framed in a 

 firm white line, 

 broken through the 

 eye, reappearing 

 around base of un- 

 der mandible. Ex- 

 treme forehead whitish. The aiTow-plumes black. Belly chestnut, the sides banded with 

 broad bars of black and white, or rufous-white ; middle of the lower belly, tibia, and flanks, 

 whitish or rufous; crissum velvety-black, streaked with chestnut. Bill dusky, paler below; 

 feet brown. Length 11.00-12.00; extent 16.00-17.00 ; wing 5.00-5.50; tail 3.00-3.50; tarsus 

 1.67; middle toe and claw about the same. An elegant species, much larger and more beauti- 

 ful than the Bob-white, inhabiting the mountainous parts of Oregon, California and Nevada. 

 The relative extent of the olive aud slaty parts is very variable. There is something of a 

 grouse in the composition of this partridge. Egg a miniature of the ruffed grouse's, only dis- 

 tinguished by smaller size — 1.40 X 1-10. 



LOPHOR'TYX. (Gr. \6(f)os, lophos, a crest; oprv^, nrtUx' a quail.) Helmet Quail. 

 With an elegant crest, recurved helmet-wise, of several ((i-lO) Iceoled, clubbed, glossy-black, 

 imbricated feathers, more than an inch lontj when fully developetl ; in the 9 , smaller, of fewer 

 feathers. Tarsus slightly shorter than middle toe and claw. Tail about | as long as the wing • 



Fig. 410.— Helmet Quail (L. gamheli) 

 nat. size. (Ad nat. del E. C.) 



Fig. 411. — Plumed Quail. (From Ten- 

 ney, after Audubon. ) 



