I'HUDICID.E — TIIK I'AU'l'UIlXiKS. 



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Young. Ilpiid ashy, willi a ti.'irrow poi^t-driiliir wUili.' stripe, and the crnwii spottcil 

 with lilat'k ; tiiroiil wiiili.-ii. JJciii'alli pale (liii;.'y-asliy, with whitish siiafl-sticaixs, and 

 without l)hiil» liars or other iiwukiii^s. Aliove redihsh or olivneeoiis ihali, tlie I'ealhcrs 

 with whitisli sliall-slreaiis, and a larf,'e blac'U spot, mostly on upper web. 



I'liirh: Head iHiiu'V lndV; an auricular (hisUj' elongated pot, and a verlieal [lateh ol' 

 ehostnut-rulbus, widenin;; on the ocuiput. 



Lenj,'tii, lit.(M); winj;-, l.VO ; tail, ZM. 



Ilab. Eastern United i^tales to ihe hiidi ("enlral Plains; Devil's IJiver, Ti'xas? 



S])eciinens f'loiii Missouri and Soutliern Illinois uro intornuMlinte liotwoon 

 the typical /•//•///« /«««.s of the Xortheastein States anil Floriila i^xaniples,' which 

 approach in every respect, except the broad jugular collar, the var. c/i/MHcnsi's. 



The size is scarcely greuliT, — ^ . 



the range in Florida liirds he- "^"^^ : ~'~f^" 



ing wing 4.10 to 4.:>(l, while 

 the average ol' Missouri and 

 Southern Illinois series is 

 about 4.25 ; again, in northern 

 and ea.stern. specimens the wing 

 is 4.70 to 4.8(1. In colors, 

 Southern Illinois and Florida 

 birds are also very similar ; 

 but in Florida there is less 

 tendency to black blotches on 

 scajjulars, etc., while in s])eci- 

 niens from the southern part of 

 the i)eniiisula the bill is aj)pre- 

 ciably larger. From the plains 

 of KaiLsas specimens are inter- 

 mediate betw^cen these Illinois 

 birds and the var. fcmnns. "">" '■<'>•'•"'""'"■ 



A jjiiir of Quails from Jamaica, probably derived from Continental 

 l)arents, are less dillerent from United States specimens than are those from 

 Cuba or Texas. In size they are like the former, and have idso an 

 efpially large bill ; the male, however, is not darker beneath than Southern 

 specimens of rirf/iniaiLHx, while the female is absolutely undistinguishable 

 in color from examples of that race from the ^fiddle States. 



Hahits. The present species, known in Xew England and in certain 

 other ])arts of the country as the Quail, and in the jMidtUe and Southern 

 States as the Partridge, — either of which names, belonging to other and quite 

 different birds, is inap])ropriatc, — is found throughout the eastern ])ortion of 

 North America fnuu Florida to Maine, and from the Atlantic to Texas on 

 the south and to the Central Tlains. I'artially successful attempts have been 



' The Florida bird has bi'eii lately charactcrizud as \iu. Jhiriilanus by Dr. Couos, in hi.s Key to 

 North Aniorican lUrds. 



