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SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. — GALLING ^ ALE CTOBOP ODES. 



" Paeteidge : " Southern and Middle States, wherever the Kuffed Grouse is called " pheasant." 

 $ : Forehead, superciliary line, and throat, white, bordered with black ; crown, neck all round, 

 and upper part of breast, brownish-red ; other under parts tawny- whitish, aU with more or fewer 

 doubly-crescentie black bars J crissum rufous; sides broadly striped with brownish-red; upper 

 parts variegated with chestnut, black, gray and tawny, the latter edging the inner quills, form- 

 ing a continuous line when the wing is closed. 9 '• Known by having the throat buff instead of 

 white, less black about the fore-parts, and general coloration subdued. The reddish of this bird is 

 of a peculiar duU pinkish shade. The black crescents of the under parts are scarcely or not half 

 the width of the intervening white spaces ; the bill is not jet black. Length of $ 10.00-10.50 ; 



Fig. 409. — The Bob White femily. (From 



' Sport with Gun and Kod; " The Century Co., N. T.) 



extent 15.00-15.50; wing 4.50 to nearly 5.00; tail 2.75-3.00. ? 9.50-10.00; extent 14.50- 

 15.00 ; wing 4.25-4.50 ; tail 2.50-2.75. Among the thousands of Bob-whites yearly destroyed, 

 albinotic or melanotic, and other abnormally colored specimens, are frequently found ; but the 

 percentage of these cases is nothing unusual, and the sportsman must be cautioned against sup- 

 posing that such birds have any status, in a scientiiic point of view, beyond their illustration of 

 certain perfectly well known variations. Such specimens, however, are interesting and valuable, 

 and should always be preserved. Eastern United States. North to Massachusetts and slightly 

 beyond ; Canada West ; Minnesota. West to high central plains. Up the Missouri to White 

 River. Salt Lake Valley (introduced). The characteristic game bird of this country. Eggs 

 indefinitely numerous, pure white, pointed at one end and very blunt at the other, about 

 L30X1.00. 



