34 GAME BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA. 



over eye, pure white. Total length about 7f inches ; wing, 4f ; 

 tail, 2| ; tarsus, \\ ; bill, \. 



It will be seen from the above that the Florida bird is both 

 darker and rather smaller than C. virginianus. 



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. 



