56o THE BOB-WHITE. 



iiig tu purpk- : a dab of bluf-hlack above anriculars : remaining underparts light 

 pearl-gray, whitening on crissnin. Adult female: Similar to male but duller, 

 without metallic reflections, vinaccoiis on chest, etc. Length: ii.oo-i2.oo (279.4- 

 304.8) : wing (<.(>-, I KiX.t)) ; tail 5.00 ( i_'7 I ; bill .83 (21.6; ; tarsus .87 (22.1 ). 



Recognition Marks. — Robin size: while wing-jjatch distinctive. 



Nesting. — Does not Ijreed in Washington. Xcst: of sticks placed IdW in 

 mcsquite or other shruliljer}-. l'.(j(/s: 2, white. Av. size. 1. 17 x. 88 (29.7 x 22.4). 



General Range. — The st)uthern portion of the Southwestern States, some- 

 times nt)rth to Coliirado (Coues); south to Costa Rica; Cuba; Jamaica; I'lorida. 



Range in Washington. — Accidental — a wanderer from the South. 



Authorities. — Mclopclia Icucuftcra. Bowles, Auk, \'ol. XX\'. Jan. 1908, 

 p. 82. 



Specimens. — Li. 



OX the 7th of Xcneiiilier, 1907, while (Juail-shooting in the I*uy:illup 

 Valley, near Taconia, Mr. Bowles brought to Ijag l)y a long shot an aduli 

 female of this species, which his dog had flushed. The bird was in ])erfect 

 feather and its manifest vigor would suggest that it was an accidental wan- 

 derer, rather than an escaped cagediird. 



The niH^mal range of this species is along the southern border of the 

 western United States, thence southward into Mexico, where the natives call 

 it Paloiiia caiitator. the singing dove. 



"vSn closeh' is it associated with llie mes(|uite country that even its 

 nK_)noton(.ius wlu>t>-ho6-hoo-ho6 calls up i)ictures id' desert thorn-brush and dobe 

 walls, o\'er which the large handsome bird is flying with white luuids outspread 

 on wings and tail. Its note is an exaggerated form of the coo common to the 

 familv. To make it the dove ]iuffs out its throat like a pouter pigeon, emitting 

 tlie curious hollow sotnid which is more suggesti\'e of the hooting of an owl 

 than the languid cooing (d' a ilo\e" ( \'ernon Bailey). 



No. 226. 



BOB-WHITE, 



A. C). U, No. 2S9. Coliniis virginianus (Linn.). 



Synonym. — Americ.-vn Oi'.xtl. 



Description. — Adult male: .\bove general color vinaceous-rufous, changing 

 to cinnamon-rufous on wings and on sides, clearest on upper back and sides of 

 breast, heavily black-spotted or barred on lower back, sca]nilars, and inner 

 quills, heavily margined with buft" on inner edges of imier scapulars an<l (|uills. 

 changing to black on forehead, everywhere mottled finely with black, white, or 

 whitish, and bluish gray; tertials in closed wing com|iletely covering the fuscous 

 primaries and secondaries ; a broad, white superciliary stripe, almost meeting 

 fellow on forehead, becoming buffv on hind-neck; a broad, black stripe below eye 



