8o GAME BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA. 



BON ASA UM BELL US. 



Geographical Distribution. — Eastern United vStates and South- 

 ern Canada, from Massachusetts to Northern Georgia; Missis- 

 sippi and Arkansas, and westward to the Dakotas. 



Adult Male. — Upper parts varied with yellowish brown and 

 gray, barred on head, neck, upper part of back and wings, with 

 black and rufous; lower part of back and rump gray, interspersed 

 with dark red, and ovate spots of pale buff, surrounded with 

 black; conspicuous, rather broad, streaks of buffy white on scapu- 

 lars and wing-coverts; primaries, grayish brown, outer webs 

 barred with ivory white; upper tail-coverts, gray, mottled, and 

 barred, with black; tufts of broad, lengthened feathers on either 

 side of neck, black, tipped with light brown and metallic green ; 

 throat, buff, faintly barred with brown; lower parts, buff on the 

 chest, white on remaining parts, barred with brown, darkest and 

 most conspicuous on the flanks, and just beneath the throat; 

 under tail-coverts, buff, barred with blackish and with a V-shaped 

 white mark at tip; tail, gray or yellowish brown; sometimes 

 rusty, mottled with black, and crossed by irregular buff bands, 

 bordered above by black, and a broad, subterminal black band 

 bordered above and below, with gray, mottled with black, the 

 upper gray bar bordered above with a narrow black bar; legs, 

 feathered to middle of tarsus; maxilla, black; mandible, horn 

 color. Total length, about i6 inches; wing, 7|; tail, 6^. 



Adult Female. — Not to be distinguished from the male, save 

 she is slightly smaller, and has either very small neck tufts or 

 none at all. 



Downy Young. — Upper parts, chestnut, darkest on front and 

 top of head; rest of plumage, light buff, darkest on sides of 

 head, with a conspicuous black line from back of eyes, across 

 ear-coverts; bill, pale yellowish. 



