34 GAME BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA. 
over eye, pure white. Total length about 7} inches ; wing, 42 ; 
tail, 23 ; tarsus, 14; bill, 4. 
It will be seen from the above that the Florida bird is both 
darker and rather smaller than C. vergznzanus. 
Adult Female.—In her coloring this sex of the Florida Quail 
bears the same relation to the male as the hen of the Northern 
‘*Bob White” does to him, and is arrayed in hues of various 
shades, as much darker as those of the male Florida bird are 
darker than those of the Virginian species. She has the buff 
throat and stripe over the eye, and her dimensions are about the 
same as those of the male. 
