58 FRANK SCHLEY'S PARTRIDGE AND PHEASANT SHOOTING. 



PARTRIDGE; QUAIL; BOB-WHITE. 



Ortyx, Virginianus. Var. Virginianus. BONAP. 



*. CHAR. Forehead, and line through the eye and 

 along the side of the neck, with chin and throat, 

 white. A band of black across the vertex, and ex- 

 tending backwards on the sides, within the white, 

 and another from the maxilla beneath the eye, and- cross- 

 ing on the lower part of the throat. The under parts are 

 white, tinged with brown anteriorly; each feather with 

 several narrow, obtusely Y-shaped bands of black. The 

 forepart of back, the side of the breast, and in front just 

 below the black collar, of a dull pinkish-red. The sides of m 

 body and wing-coverts brownish-red; the latter almost 

 uniform, without indication of mottling. Scapulars and 

 upper tertials coarsely blotched with black, and edged in- 

 ternally with brownish yellow, top of head reddish ; the 

 lower part of neck, except anteriorly, streaked with white 

 and black. Primary quills unspotted brown, tail ash. 

 Female with the white markings of the head replaced by 

 brownish-yellow ; the black ones with brownish. 



Young. Head ashy, with a narrow post-ocular white 

 stripe, and the crown spotted with black; throat whitish. 

 Beneath pale dingy ash, with wkitish shaft streaks, and 

 without black bars or other markings. Above reddish or 

 olivaceous drab, the feathers with whitish shaft-streaks, 

 and a large black spot, mostly on upper web. 



Chick. Head dingy-buff; an auricular dusky elongated 

 spot, and a vertical patch of chestnut-rufous, widening on 

 the occiput. Length, 10.00 ; wing, 4.70 ; tail, 2.85. 



HAB. Eastern United States to the High Central Plain, 

 Devil's River, Texas. Baird, Brewer and Ridgway. 



