QUAILOLOGY - ORNITHOLOGY 15 



NESTS AND EGGS 



Quoting Dr. Jaun Viaro, professor of natural history, Universi- 

 ty of Havana, Cuba: "The Cuban Bob White lays from ten to 

 eighteen eggs; these are usually deposited, between the months 

 of April and July, in a slight cavity of the ground, sheltered by 

 vegetation." 



HABITS 



Specimens intermediate between the Cuban and Florida Bob 

 White have been taken on the east coast of Florida, near Miami, 

 Dade County. Locally it is known as "Codorniz." 



It is common in Florida where it is not found at any time in the 

 heavy forests, but along the outskirts, in the bushes and under- 

 growth. It feeds on small fruit, seeds and leafy shoots. 



The male, according to the late Maj. Bendire, assists in the duty 

 of incubation. 



MASKED BOB WHITE 



Colinus ridgwayi ( Brewst. ) 



Geog. Dist.— Sonora to Southern Arizona. 



Sp. Char. "Male, adult. Whole head, neck, and throat black, except 

 the centre of the crown posteriorly and occipital and nuchal regions, which 

 are varied with black, white, and cinnamon, the black predominating; 

 under parts warm brownish cinnamon, immaculate except on the flanks, 

 where a few of the feathers are spotted marginally with white and duU 

 black, and on the under tail-coverts, the central feathers of which are broad- 

 ly tipped with brownish- white and crossed with v-shaped bars of black; in- 

 ner secondaries, wing-coverts, scapulars, and fore part of back of nearly the 

 same color as the under parts but paler and pinker, the feathers everywhere 

 barred and mottled with whitish and dark brown or dull black; upper tail- 

 coverts, rump, and back posteriorly grayish-drab, obscurely barred and mot- 

 tled with dark brown and whitish; primaries drab, mottled with whitish 

 on their outer webs; tail feathers bluish-ash, finely vermiculated with pale 

 brown and whitish, most strongly on the central pair. Bill black; legs and 

 feet horn color. Length 9.70; extent, 14.50; wing, 4.45; tail, 3.75; tarsus, 

 1.30; bill, .30 deep by .34 long from nostril. —Type, No.3599, Coll. P. Stephens. 



This species seems to most nearly resemble C. COYOLCOS, but 

 differs in the restriction of the black to the head, neck and throat, 

 in the absence of white frontal and superciliary stripes, and in 

 its decidedly larger size, (b) 



The type specimen was taken by Mr. Stephens, Aug. 11, about 



(b) The Auk, Vol. II, No. 3, April, 1885, p. 199. 



