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The description of Bob White as given by Wilson is 

 minute and accurate. It is as follows: 



"Nine inches long and fourteen inches in extent; the 

 bill is black; line over the eye, down the neck, and whole 

 chin, pure white, bounded by a band of black, which 

 descends and spreads broadly over the throat; the eye is 

 dark hazel; crown, neck, and upper part of breast, red- 

 brown; sides of the neck, spotted with white and black 

 on a reddish-brown ground; back, scapulars, and lesser 

 coverts, red-brown, intermixed with ash, and sprinkled 

 with black; tertials, edged with yellowish- white; wings, 

 plain dusky; lower part of the breast and belly, pale 

 yellowish- white, beautifully marked with numerous curv- 

 ing spots or arrow-heads of black; tail, ash, sprinkled 

 with reddish-brown; legs, very pale ash." 



He does not mention their weight, which may be 

 stated as being from six to 8J- ounces, the latter, however, 

 being rare. Seven or 7J ounces is, I think, about the 

 average weight for well-grown, well-fed birds. 



The habitat of Bob White in the United States and 

 Canada may be given as follows: Beginning at and 

 including Southern New Hampshire; thence down the 

 Atlantic Coast to the Everglades of Florida; thence west- 

 ward with the Gulf of Mexico to the mouth of the Rio 

 Grande, and up that stream to the twenty -fourth merid- 

 ian, which may be taken as the western boundary line, 

 although it is gradually extending westward, especially 

 in Nebraska and Dakota, some having been found even 

 in Wyoming, and they have been successfully trans- 

 planted into Colorado. The forty-fifth parallel appears 

 to be about their northern boundary line in the extreme 

 Northwest. It then bears southward toward the Great 

 Lakes, including Southern Minnesota, Wisconsin, and 

 Michigan, crossing into Canada near the lower end of Lake 

 Huron, and continuing eastward through the Province 



