QUAILOLOGY. 



Part I. 

 ORNITHOLOGY. 



Order GALLIN^E. Gallinaceous Birds. 



Granivorous and possessing strong claws for scratching. They include 

 most of our domestic birds. 



Suborder PHASIANI. Pheasants, Grouse, Partridges, etc. 



Family TETRAONID^. Gbodse, Partridges, etc. 

 Game birds; flocks; generally polygamus; feed on insects, seeds, etc; do 

 little injury; of vast economic importance. 



Subfamily PERDICIN^. Partridges. 

 Genus COLINUS Less. 



BOB WHITE 



Colinus virginianus ( LiNN. ) 

 Geog, Dist. — Eastern United States; west to Dakota, Kansas, Indian Ter- 

 ritory and Eastern Texas. North to Southern Maine and Southern Canada, 

 south to the Atlantic and Gulf States. (*) 



Sp. Char. "Forehead, and line through the eye and along the aide of the 

 neck, with chin and throat, white. A band of black across the vertex, and ex- 

 tending backwards on the sides, within the white, and another from the maxilla 

 beneath the eye, and crossing on the lower part of the throat; the under parts 

 are white, tinged with brown anteriorly; each feather with several narrow, ob- 

 tuse, V-shaped bands of black; the fore part of back, the side of the breast, and 

 in front just below the black collar, of a dull pinkish red; the sides of body and 

 wing coverts brownish red; the latter almost uniform, without indication of 

 mottling; scapulars and upper tertials coarsely blotched with black, and edged 

 internally with brownish yellow; top of head reddish; the lower part of neck, 

 except anteriorly, streaked with white and black; primary quills unspotted 

 brown; tail ash. Female: With the white markings of the head replaced by 

 brownish yellow; the black ones with brownish. Young : Head ashy, with a 

 * Goss' Birds of Kansas. 



