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Perdix borealis Temminck, Pig. et Gallin., iii, 1815, 436, 475 (part).— Vieillot, 



Gal. Ois., ii, 1825, 44, pi. 214. 

 Ortyx borealis Stephens, in Shaw, Gen. Zool., xi, 1819, 377. — Jardine and Selby, 



Illustr. Orn., i, 1828, text to pi. 38; Nat. Libr. Orn., iv, 1834, pi. 10. 

 T[etrao minor] Barteam, Trav. in Florida, etc., 1791, 290. 

 (?) Ortyx castanea Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1842 (1843), 142 ("South 



America"; coll. J. Gould). 

 (?) Ortyx castaneus Gould, Monogr. Odontoph., pt. 3, 1850, pi. 3. — Gray, List 



Birds, Brit. Mus. pt. 5, Gallinae, 1867, 76; Hand-list, ii, 1870, 273, No. 9780.— 



Ocilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxii, 1893, 424; Handbook Game Birds, 



ii, 1897, 145 (monogr.). 

 (?) Colinus virginianus castaneus Peters, Check-list Birds World, ii, 1934, 49 and 



footnote. — Hellmaye and Conover, Cat. Birds Amer., i, No. 1, 1942, 247. 

 Ortyx hoopesii "Krider," "Homo" [pseudonym]. Forest and Stream, v, 1875, 243 



(near Philadelphia, Pa. :^ black-throated variety). 

 C[olinus] v[irginianus] verus Allen, Auk, iii, 1886, 276, in text (not apparently 



intended as a new name but signifying "true" or "typical" virginianus). 

 Colinus virginianus taylori Lincoln, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, xxviii, 1915, 103 



(Laird, Yuma County, Colo.; coll. Colorado Museum Nat. Hist.). — American 



Ornithologists' Union, Auk, xxxiii, 1916, 426. — Long, Bull. Univ. Kansas Sci., 



xxxvi, 1935, 233 (common; w. Kansas) ; Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., xliii, 1940, 



441 (Kansas; common resident in western part; probably as far east as the 



Flint Hills). 

 Colinus v[irgimanus] taylori Lincoln, Proc. Colorado Mus. Nat. Hist., 1915, 6 



(Yuma County, Colo.; resident). 

 [Colinus] [virginianus] taylori Sutton, Ann. Carnegie Mus., xxiv, 1934, 12, in text. 



COLINUS VIRGINIANUS TEXANUS (Lawrence) 



Texas Bobwhite 



Adult male.- — Similar to that of the nominate form but without any 

 black loreal band from the bill to the eye and without large, conspicuous 

 black blotches on the scapulars, innermost secondaries, and back; gen- 

 erally much more grayish, less rufescent above, and less tinged with ochra- 

 ceous or buffy below ; the feathers of upperparts of head and body paler 

 in their brownish parts than in the typical form and each feather termi- 

 nally edged with pale smoke grayish, the interscapulars and feathers of 

 the .back and upper wing coverts barred with whitish each of these bars 

 bordered by blackish ; the black border posterior to the white throat nar- 

 rower; size generally smaller. 



Adult female. — Similar to that of the nominate race but slightly paler 

 and much grayer, as in the male, and without large black blotches on the 

 scapulars, inner secondaries, and back. 



Immature. — Similar to the adult of corresponding sex, but with the 

 two outer primaries more pointed terminally. 



Juvenal. — Like that of the nominate race of corresponding sex but 

 somewhat paler, and, for this reason, appearing somewhat more brownish, 

 less dusky. 



Natal down. — Not distinguishable from that of the typical race. 



