40 GAME BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA. 



White line over the eye ; sides of face and throat, jet black ; 

 entire rest of under parts, uniform cinnamon rufous ; bill, black ; 

 legs and feet pale brown. Total length, 8| inches ; wing, 4I 

 inches ; tail, 2f ; tarsus, i^ ; bill, ^. 



Adult Female. — The female resembles very closely that of the 

 Texan Quail, but is much paler, especially on the upper parts, 

 which have a good deal of light buff markings in bars and mot- 

 tling. The wings are particularly noticeable for their pale color- 

 ing. The under parts are very much alike in the two birds, but the 

 present species has a narrower and paler cinnamon band on the 

 breast, and the bars on abdomen and upper breast are darker, 

 consequently more conspicuous. The buff throat is very pale in 

 the center and toward the chin. In dimensions the sexes are 

 about the same. 



