186 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



e*. Toes entirely naked ; tail two-thiriis to four-fifths as long as 



(21.) wing; plumage never while. Dendragapus. (Page 194.) 



b-. Lower portion of tarsus completely naked ; tail nearly as long as wing, 



fan-shaped; sides of neck with a broad tuft or ruti' of soft, broad-webbed 



feathor.s Bonasa. (Page 197.) 



Genus COTURNIX Bonnaterre.' (Page 184.) 



Species. 



Adult male: Above light brown, the back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail-cov- 

 erts broadly and sharply streaked with butf, each buff streak being bordered along 

 each side by a narrow blackish streak ; in addition to these markings the feathers 

 have narrow bars of blackish and palo buff'y bi-own, the scapulars with irregular 

 spots of the former; wing-coverts barred with dusky and buffy, and marked with 

 narrow mesial streaks of buffy or whitish ; quills dull grayish brown, spotted or 

 irregularly barred on outer webs with oehraceous-bufl'; a distinct superciliary 

 Stripe of buify or dull whitish ; under-part and sides of head and neck whitish or 

 buffy, the middle of the throat with more or loss of a brownish or dusky longitu- 

 dinal patch, connecting below with a dusky or brownish stripe extending obliquely 

 upward to ear-coverts; below and behind these brownish markings, and usually 

 separated from them by a whitish or bufty space, another, usuallj' interrupted line 

 of dusky or brownish spots, these sometimes blended into a continuous stripe ; chest 

 and breast light cinnamon-brownish, with paler shaft-streaks, the lateral portions 

 more broadly streaked, the lighter streaks bordered along each side by blackish ; 

 rest of lower parts buffj^ the sides and flanks streaked with duskj\ Adult female: 

 Similar to the male, but throat without dusky markings, and chest and breast 

 buffy, spotted, longitudinally, with blackish. Downy young {partially feathered) : 

 " Centre of crown dark brown, with a central buff stripe ; sides of the crown warm 

 reddish buff; upper parts generally blackish brown, barred with warm buff, and 

 mai'ked with long buffy white stripes; chin, throat, and sides of head buffy white; 

 rest of the under-parts buffy white, closely spotted with blackish brown." 

 (Dresser.) Length about 7.00, wing 4.10-1.30, culmen .25-.30, tarsus 1.00-1.15. 

 Hab. Northern portions of eastern hemisphere in general ; introduced into (and 

 partially naturalized in?) various portions of eastern United States. 



C. coturnix (LiNN.). European Quail.^ 



Genus COLINUS Lesson. (Page 185, pi. LVI., fig. 1.) 



Species. 



Common Characters. — LTpper parts mottled grajish. tinged more or less with 

 rusty and more or less vermiculated with duskj' and whitish ; quills plain graj-ish, 

 and tail chiefly bluish gray; lower parts usually whitish, varied with black and 



' Coturnix BoNNATsnnK, Tnbl. Encyl. ot M6th. i. 1790, 217. Type, Tctiao coturnix Linn. 



> Tetrao coturnix Linn., S. N. od. 10, i. 1758, 161. Coturnix coturnix LieilT., Nom. Mu». Borol. 1854, 34. 



