QUAIL. BOB-WHITE. 
( Or/tyso virginia’ na.) 
OREHEAD and throat white bordered with black; 
crown, neck, and upper part of breast brownish 
i red. Under parts tawny whitish with black 
7 bars. Sides striped with brownish red. Upper 
j part variegated with chestnut, black, gray, and tawny. 
Female has throat buff instead of white and with 
. less black on fore-parts. Length 10 to 10% inches. 
. Eastern United States. Eggs indefinitely numerous; 
pure white, pointed at one end and very blunt 
fj at the other. Nest on ground among bushes, 
or in wheat fields. Destroys the weevil which 
infests the wheat. Notes sound like Bob-bob- 
white. 
“When I was a little girl,” said Miss 
Sweet, “I used to enjoy seeing a Quail 
sit on a rail fence and call out ‘more 
wet,’ and I thoroughly believed in him 
| as a weather prophet. IfIheard 
. him when | a picnic was planned 
| /I was broken heart- 
|| ed.” 
; The Quail ren- 
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