560 THE BOB-WHITE. 
ing to purple; a dab of blue-black above auriculars; remaining underparts light 
pearl-gray, whitening on crissum, Adult female: Similar to male but duller, 
without metallic reflections, vinaceous on chest, etc. Length; 11.00-12.00 (279.4- 
304.8) ; wing 6.65 (168.9) ; tail 5.00 (127); bill .85 (21.6); tarsus .87 (22.1). 
Recognition Marks.—Robin size; white wing-patch distinctive. 
Nesting.—Does not breed in Washington. Nest: of sticks placed low in 
mesquite or other shrubbery. Eggs: 2, white. Av. size, 1.17 x 88 (29.7 x 22.4). 
General Range.—The southern portion of the Southwestern States, some- 
times north to Colorado (Coues) ; south to Costa Rica; Cuba; Jamaica; Florida. 
Range in Washington.—Accidental—a wanderer from the South. 
Authorities—clopelia leucoptera, Bowles, Auk, Vol. XXV. Jan. 1908, 
p. 82. 
Specimens. }i. 
ON the 7th of November, 1907, while Quail-shooting in the Puyallup 
Valley, near Tacoma, Mr. Bowles brought to bag by a long shot an adult 
female of this species, which his dog had flushed. The bird was in perfect 
feather and its manifest vigor would suggest that it was an accidental wan- 
derer, rather than an escaped cage-bird. 
The normal range of this species is along the southern border of the 
western United States, thence southward into Mexico, where the natives call 
it Paloma cantator, the singing dove. 
“So closely is it associated with the mesquite country that even its 
monotonous whoo-hod-hoo-hoo calls up pictures of desert thorn-brush and dobe 
walls, over which the large handsome bird is flying with white bands outspread 
on wings and tail. Its note is an exaggerated form of the coo common to the 
family. To make it the dove puffs out its throat like a pouter pigeon, emitting 
the curious hollow sound which is more suggestive of the hooting of an owl 
than the languid cooing of a dove” (Vernon Bailey ). 
No. 226. 
BOB-WHITE. 
A. O. U. No. 289. Colinus virginianus (Linn.). 
Synonym.—AMERICAN QUAIL. 
Description.—<Adult male: Above general color vinaceous-rufous, changing 
to cinnamon-rufous on wings and on sides, clearest on upper back and sides of 
breast, heavily black-spotted or barred on lower back, scapulars, and inner 
quills, heavily margined with buff on inner edges of inner scapulars and quills. 
changing to black on forehead, everywhere mottled finely with black, white, or 
whitish, and bluish gray; tertials in closed wing completely covering the fuscous 
primaries and secondaries; a broad, white superciliary stripe, almost meeting 
fellow on forehead, becoming buffy on hind-neck; a broad, black stripe below eye 
