134 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
ORDER GALLINA. GALLINACEOUS BIRDS. 
SUBORDER PHASIANI. Puerasants, GROUSE, 
PARTRIDGES, QUAILS, ETC. 
Famity ODONTOPHORIDZ. Bos-wHITEsS, QUAILS, ETC. 
GENUS COLINUS Go.Lpruss. 
Colinus Goutpruss, Handbuch Zool., II, 1820, 220. Type, by monotypy, 
“Perdix mexicanus, Caille de la Louisiana, Pl. Enl. 149” = Tetrao 
virginianus LINN US. 
Colinus virginianus (LINN &Us). 
RanGe.— Eastern North America from South Dakota and southern 
Maine to Florida, the Gulf coast, Texas, and eastern Mexico. 
a. Colinus virginianus virginianus (LinNmus). Bob-white. [289.] 
Tetrao virginianus LInN.xus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 161. (Carolina.) 
Rance.— Upper Sonoran and southern half of Transition zones of eastern 
North America from South Dakota, southern Minnesota, southern Ontario, 
and southwestern Maine south to eastern and northern Texas, the Gulf coast, 
and northern Florida west to eastern Colorado; introduced in central Colorado, 
New Mexico, Utah, Idaho, California, Oregon, and Washington. 
b. Colinus virginianus floridanus (Cours). Florida Bob-white. [289a.] 
Ortyx virginianus var. floridanus Cours, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 237. 
(Enterprise, Volusia Co., Florida.) 
Rance.— Florida, except extreme northern part. 
c. Colinus virginianus texadnus (LAWRENCE). Texas Bob-white. [289b.] 
Ortyx texanus LAwreNce#, Ann. Lye. N. H. N. Y., VI, 1853, 1. (Near 
Ringgold Barracks, Texas.) 
Rance.— Southeastern corner of New Mexico to southern Texas, and 
south through northeastern Coahuila and Nuevo Leon to central Tamaulipas. 
