TETRAONIDA! — ODONTOPHORINZE: PARTRIDGES OR QUAIL. 591 
O. v. florida/na, (Of Florida.) FLortpa Quaru. Rather smaller, the ¢ about the size of 
the 2 virginiana, but bill relatively larger, and jet-black ; colors darker, all the black mark- 
ings heavier, those of the under parts nearly as broad as the intervening white spaces. Florida, 
and similar specimens in the lower Mississippi Valley; an approach to the Cuban form 
(O. cubanensis). 
O. v. texa/na. (Of Texas.) Texas Quaiu. Size of floridana ; colors paler, the prevailing 
shade rather gray than brown; upper parts much variegated with tawny. Eggs 1.20 & 0.98. 
These two are mere climatic varieties of one species. 
OROR/TYX. (Gr. dpos, or0s, a mountain ; éprvé, ortux, a quail.) PLUMED Quain. Head 
adorned with an arrowy crest of two slender keeled plumes, 3-4 inches long in the g when 
full-developed; present in 9, shorter. Bill and feet stout; tarsus equal to the middle toe and 
claw. Tail about 2 the wing, broad, rounded, with long coverts. Size large; colors massed 
in large areas; sexes alike. Eggs colored. One species. 
O. pic'ta. (Lat. picta, pictured, painted. Fig.411.) PLUMED PARTRIDGE. MOUNTAIN QUAIL 
of the Californians. @9, adult: Back, wings and tail 
olive-brown, the inner secondaries and tertiaries bordered 
with whitish or tawny, forming a lengthwise border in 
single line when the wings are folded; the primaries fus- 
cous, the tail-feathers fuscous, minutely marbled with 
the color of the back. 
Fore - parts, above 
and below, slaty- 
blue (above more or 
less glossed with 
the olive shade of 
the back, below mi- 
nutely marbled with 
black) ; the throat 
chestnut, immedi- 
ately bordered lat- 
erally with black, 
then framed in a 
firm white line, 
broken through the 
eye, reappearing 
Fig. 410.—Helmet Quail (Z. gambeli). around base of un- Fie. 411, —Plumed Quail. (From Ten- 
nat. size. (Ad nat. del. KE. C.) der mandible. Ex- ¢Y) after Audubon. ) 
treme forehead whitish. The arrow-plumes black. Belly chestnut, the sides banded with 
broad bars of black and white, or rufous-white; middle of the lower belly, tibia, and flanks, 
whitish or rufous; crissum velvety-black, streaked with chestnut. Bill dusky, paler below; 
feet brown. Length 11.00-12.00; extent 16.00-17.00; wing 5.00-5.50; tail-3.00-3.50; tarsus 
1.67; middle toe and claw about the same. An elegant species, much larger and more beauti- 
ful than the Bob-white, inhabiting the mountainous parts of Oregon, California and Nevada. 
The relative extent of the olive and slaty parts is very variable. There is something of a 
grouse in the composition of this partridge. Egg a miniature of the ruffed grouse’s, only dis- 
tinguished by smaller size — 1.40 1.10. 
LOPHOR'TYX. (Gr. Addos, lophos, a erest; dptvé, ortux, a quail.) HeLMer Quatn. 
With an elegant crest, recurved helmet-wise, of several (6-10) keeled, clubbed, glossy-black, 
imbricated feathers, more than an inch long when fully developed; in the 9, smaller, of fewer 
feathers. Tarsus slightly shorter than middle toe and claw. Tail about 4 as long asthe wing; 
