ORDER GALLING. GALLINACEOUS BIEDS. 



SUBORDER PH ASIAN I. PHEASANTS, GROUSE, PARTRIDGES, 



QUAILS, ETC. 



FAMILY TETRAONID^. GROUSE, PARTRIDGES, ETC. 

 SUBFAMILY PERDICIN^E. PARTRIDGES. 



GENUS COLLNUS LESSON. 

 COLINUS VIRGLNIANUS (LINN.). 



126. Bob-white. (289) 



Coronal feathers erectile, but not forming a true crest. Forehead, super- 

 ciliary line and throat, white, bordered with black ; crown, neck all round and 

 upper part of breast, brownish-red ; other under parts, tawny- whitish, all with 

 more or fewer doubly crescentic black bars; sides, broadly streaked with 

 brownish-red; upper parts, variegated with chestnut, black, gray and tawny, 

 the latter edging the inner quills. Female: Known by having the throat buff 

 instead of the white, less black about the foreparts, and general colors less 

 intense, rather smaller than the male. Length, 9-10; wing, 4^-5: tail, 2^-3. 



HAB. Eastern United States and southern Canada, from southern Maine to 

 the South Atlantic and Gulf States, west to Dakota, eastern Kansas and eastern 

 Texas. 



