ORDER GALLING. 



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Order GALLIN^^. Gallinaceous Birds. 



Suborder PHASIANl. Pheasants, Grouse, Par- 

 tridges, OUAILS, ETC. 



Family TETRAONID^. Grouse, Partridges, etc. 

 Subfamily PERDICIN-<E. Partridges. 



Genus COLINUS Lesson. 



Colinus Less. Man. d'Orn. IL 182S, 190. Type, Tetrao virginianus 

 Linn. 



289. Colinus virginianus (Linn.). 



Bob-white. 



Tetrao vir<^iniamis Linn. S. N. ed. 10, L 175S, 161. 

 Colinus virghiiamis 'S'iv.]':i. KwV^W. ]zxi. 1885,45. 



[B471, C 3S9, R480, C 571.] 



Hab. Eastern United States and Southern Canada, from South- 

 ern Maine to the South Atlantic and Gulf States ; west to Dakota, 

 Eastern Kansas, and Eastern Texas. 



289 <z. Colinus virginianus floridanus (Coues). 



Florida Bob-wliite. 



Ortyx virginiamis \"\r. floridanus CouES, Key, 1872, 237. 

 Colinus virginianus flo: idanus Stejn. Auk, II. Jan. 1885, 45^ 



[B — , C 389 <?, R 480^!, C 572.] 



Hab. Florida. 



289/^. Colinus virginianus texanus (La\vr.). 



Texan Bob-white. 



Oriyx texanus Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. VI. April, 1853, i. 

 Colinus virginianus iexanus Stejn. Auk, II. Jan, 1885, 45. 



