Okdee GALLIN^E. Gallinaceous Birds. 



Suborder PH ASIAN I. Pheasants, Grouse, Partridges, 



Quails, etc. 



Family TETRAONID^. Grouse, Paktriixjes, etc. 



Subfamily PERDICIN^. Partriikjes. 



Genus COLINUS Lesson. 



COLINUS VIRGINIANUS (Lixx.). 



126. Bob-white. (289) 



Coronal feathers erectile, but not forming a true crest. Forehead, super- 

 ciliary line and throat, white, bordered with black ; crown, neck all i-ound and 

 upper part of breast, brownisli-red ; other under parts, tawny-whitish, all with 

 more or fewer doubly crescentic black bars ; sides, broadly streaked with 

 brownish-red; upper parts, variegated with chestnut, black, gray and tawny, 

 the latter edging the inner quills. Female: — Known by liaving the throat buff 

 instead of the white, less black about the foreparts, and general colors less 

 intense, rather smaller than the male. Length, 9-10; wing, 4|-5: tail, 2^-.3. 



Hab. — Eastern United States and southern Canada, from southern Maine to 

 the South Atlantic and Gulf States, west to Dakota, eastei-n Kansas and eastern 

 Texas. 



