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not, as a general thing, blotched with black to any such extent. 

 The lines formed by outer edges of scapulars, tertials, and inner 

 secondaries are very pale buff, almost white, and the bars on the 

 feathers are in many cases of the same color. On the upper part 

 of breast, beneath the black that surrounds the white throat, is a 

 narrow pale cinnamon band, and the white of the rest of the 

 under parts is irregularly barred with jet black. Rest of plumage 

 like the Northern bird but paler. Total length about 9 inches ; 

 wing, 4i ; tail, 2| ; tarsus, i^ ; bill, \. 



Adult Female. — General plumage marked like the male but 

 very pale in its general hues, in some specimens the lower back 

 and rump being a light olive-brown barred with buff. A band of 

 very pale cinnamon crosses upper part of breast, and the white 

 under parts are barred with dark brown. Line over eyes, pale 

 buff, and the throat also pale buff, becoming almost w^hite in the 

 center. Dimensions about the same as those of the male. 



As in the other forms of "Bob White," there is considerable 

 variation among individuals of the Texan Quail, and a description 

 of one bird would not be equally accurate for all, but this form 

 can generally be distinguished by its pale colors and narrow 

 cinnamon breast band. 



Young. — Top of head, rufous, with a black spot in the center, 

 and a narrow black line from behind the eye. Upper part and 

 wings, rufous, mottled with blackish brown feathers, streaked and 

 tipped with w^hite. Secondaries, pale brown, mottled with black- 

 ish brown on outer webs, and barred with buffy white and tipped 

 with same. Throat white. Breast, pale brown, streaked along 

 the shafts of the feathers with white and vermiculated on breast 

 with dark brown ; rest of under parts, whitish brown, faintly 

 barred in the flanks with darker brown. Bill, light horn color. 



