590 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS.— GALLIN Ai — ALECTOROPODES. 
‘ PARTRIDGE:” Southern and Middle Ae the Ruffed Grouse is called ‘‘ pheasant.” 
&@: Forehead, superciliary line, and throat, white, bordered with black ; crown, neck all round, 
and upper part of breast, brownish-red ; other under parts tawny-whitish, all with more or fewer 
doubly-crescentic black bars; crissum rufous; sides broadly striped with brownish-red ; upper 
parts variegated with chestnut, black, gray and tawny, the latter edging the inner quills, form- 
ing a continuous line when the wing is closed. 9 : Known by having the throat buff instead of 
white, less black about the fore-parts, and general coloration subdued. The reddish of this bird is 
of a peculiar dull pinkish shade. The black crescents of the under parts are scarcely or not half 
the width of the intervening white spaces ; the bill is not jet black. Length of ¢ 10.00-10.50 ; 
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Fia. 409. — The Bob White family. (From “ Sport with Gun and Rod;’’ The Century Co., N. Y.) 
extent 15.00-15.50; wing 4.50 to nearly 5.00; tail 2.75-3.00. 9 9.50-10.00; extent 14.50- 
15.00; wing 4.25-4.50; tail 2.50-2.75. Among the thousands of Bob-whites yearly destroyed 
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albinotie or melanotic, and other abnormally colored specimens, are frequently found ; but the 
percentage of these cases is nothing unusual, and the sportsman must be cautioned against sup- 
posing that such birds have any status, in a scientific point of view, beyond their illustration of 
certain perfectly well known variations. Such specimens, however, are interesting and valuable, 
and should always be preserved. Eastern United States. North to Massachusetts and slightly 
beyond; Canada West; Minnesota. West to high central plains. Up the Missouri to White 
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iver. Salt Lake Valley (introduced). The characteristic game bird of this country. Eggs 
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indefinitely numerous, pure white, pointed at one end and very blunt at the other, about 
1.30 & 1.00. 
