134 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



ORDER GALLING. GALLINACEOUS BIRDS. 



SUBORDER PHASIANI. PHEASANTS, GROUSE, 

 PARTRIDGES, QUAILS, ETC. 



FAMILY ODONTOPHORIDJE. BOB-WHITES, QUAILS, ETC. 



GENUS COLINUS GOLDFUSS. 



Colinus GOLDFUSS, Handbuch ZooL, II, 1820, 220. Type, by monotypy, 

 " Perdix mexicanus, Caille de la Louisiana, PL Enl. 149" = Tetrao 

 virginianus LINNAEUS. 



Colinus virginianus (LINNAEUS). 



RANGE. Eastern North America from South Dakota and southern 

 Maine to Florida, the Gulf coast, Texas, and eastern Mexico. 



a. Colinus virginianus virginianus (LINN^US). Bob-white. [289.] 



Tetrao virginianus LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 161. (Carolina.) 



RANGE. Upper Sonoran and southern half of Transition zones of eastern 

 North America from South Dakota, southern Minnesota, southern Ontario, 

 and southwestern Maine south to eastern and northern Texas, the Gulf coast, 

 and northern Florida west to eastern Colorado; introduced in central Colorado, 

 New Mexico, Utah, Idaho, California, Oregon, and Washington. 



6. Colinus virginianus floridanus (CouEs). Florida Bob-white. [289a.] 



Ortyx virginianus var. floridanus COUES, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 237. 

 (Enterprise, Volusia Co., Florida.) 



RANGE. Florida, except extreme northern part. 



c. Colinus virginianus texanus (LAWRENCE). Texas Bob-white. [289&.] 



Ortyx texanus LAWRENCE, Ann. Lye. N. H. N. Y., VI, 1853, 1. (Near 

 Ringgold Barracks, Texas.) 



RANGE. Southeastern corner of New Mexico to southern Texas, and 

 south through northeastern Coahuila and Nuevo Leon to central Tamaulipas. 



