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the lower Mississippi Valley; an approach to the Cuban form (C. cubanensis). Habits, nest, 

 and eggs indistinguishable from those of the common Bob White ; but this southern form breeds 

 earlier, from February onward. As stated in the Key, 4th ed. 1890, p. 904, the Cuban bird 

 was for a time supposed to occur in Florida, being so given in Kidgw. Man. 1887, p. 188, 

 figuring in the A. 0. U. Abridged Check-List, 1889, as No. 289 c, and separately treated as 

 such by Bendire, i, 1892, p. 9. All the Bob Whites of Florida belong to the single sub- 

 species established in the original edition of the Key, 1872. p. 237. 



C. V. texa'nus. (Of Texas.) Texas Quail. S\ze of floridamis ; colors paler, prevailing 

 shade rather gray than brown ; upper parts mucli variegated with tawny. Texas, X. to Kansas, 



FlO. 508. —The Bob White Family. (From " Sport with dun and Ro.i ; " The Century Co , N. Y.) 



S. into Mexico. No ditierence from rirginifoius proper in luibits, nest, or eggs, the latter aver- 

 age 1 .20 X 0.90, as before. This bird shades directly into the stock form on the one hand, and 

 on the other approaches C graysoni. 



C. ridK'wayi. (To K. Kidgway. Fig. 509.) Kidoway's CoLiN. Arizona Bob White. 

 Maskki) Bint White. Hooded Quail. Adult ^ : Front, and sides of liead and neck, 

 black, witli or without a narrow white frontal line and superciliary stripe. I'nder parts 

 diestnut or cinnamon (about tlic color of l)reast of Kobin), varying much iu sliade, generally 

 unspotted, except on tlanks, where tlii' fcatliers are usually tipped with an oval white spot, 

 preceded by a sul)terminal black 1>ar ; lower tail-coverts with a V-shaped black spot bordered 

 with whitish ; occasionally small touches of black and white along sides. Crown, liind head, 

 and nape mi.xed Idack. uiiite, and pale bniwii, nr yellowish-white ; hind neck and iiiter.M-apu- 



