TETBAONIB^ —OBONTOPHOBIN^ : PABTBIDGES OB QUAIL. 591 



572. 



573. 



311. 



574. 



212. 



O. V. florida'na. (Of Florida.) Florida Quail. Rather smaller, the $ about the size of 

 the 9 vvrgmiama, but bill relatively larger, and jet-black ; colors darker, all the black mark- 

 ings heavier, those of the under parts nearly as broad as the intervening white spaces. Florida, 

 and similar specimens in the lower Mississippi Valley; an approach to the Cuban form 

 (0. cubanensis). . 



O. V. texa/na. (Of Texas.) Texas Quail. Size oifloridoma; colors paler, the prevailing 

 shade rather gray than brown ; upper parts much variegated with tawny. Eggs 1.20 X 0.93. 

 These two are mere climatic varieties of one species. 



OBOIfTYX. (Gr. &pos, oros, a mountain ; oprv^, ortux, a quail.) Plumed Quail. Head 

 adorned with an arrowy crest of two slender keeled plumes, 3-4 inches long in the $ when 

 full-developed ; present in $ , shorter. BUI and feet stout ; tarsus equal to the middle toe and 

 claw. Tail about | the wing, broad, rounded, with long coverts. Size large ; colors massed 

 in large areas ; sexes alike. Eggs colored. One species. 



O. pic'ta. (Lat. pkta, pictured, painted. Fig. 411.) Plumed Paktridge. Mountain Quail 



of the Californians. $ ? , adult : Back, wings and tail 

 olive-brown, the inner secondaries and tertiaries bordered 

 with whitish or tawny, forming a lengthwise border in 

 single line when the wings are folded ; the primaries fus- 

 cous, the tail-feathers fuscous, minutely marbled with 

 the color of the back. 

 Fore - p.arts, above 

 and below, slaty- 

 blue (above more or 

 less glossed with 

 the olive shade of 

 the back, below mi- 

 nutely marbled with 

 black) ; the throat 

 chestnut, immedi - 

 ately bordered lat- 

 erally with black, 

 then iramed in a 

 firm white line, 

 broken through the 

 eye, reappearing 

 around base of un- 

 der mandible. Ex- 

 The aiTow-plumes black. BeUy chestnut. 



Fig. 410. — Helmet Qnail (i. gamieli). 

 nat. size. (Ad nat. del. E. C.) 



Fig. 411. — Plumed Quail. (From Ten- 

 ney, after Audubon. ) 



treme forehead whitish. The aiTow-plumes black. BeUy chestnut, the sides banded with 

 broad bars of black and white, or rufous- white; middle of the lower belly, tibia, and flanks, 

 whitish or rufous ; crissum velvety-black, streaked with chestnut. Bill dusky, paler below ; 

 feet brown. Length 11.00-13.00; extent 16.00-17.00; wing 5.00-5.50; tail 3.00-3.50; tarsus 

 1.67; middle toe and claw about the same. An elegant species, much larger and more beauti- 

 ful than the Bob-white, inhabiting the mountainous parts of Oregon, California and Nevada. 

 The relative extent of the olive and slaty parts is very variable. There is something of a 

 grouse in the composition of this partridge. Egg a miniature of the rufied grouse's, only dis- 

 tinguished by smaller size — 1.40 X X.IO. 



LOPHOE'TYX. (Gr. X({(^or, lophos, a crest; Sprv^, ortux, a quail.) Helmet Quail. 

 With an elegant crest, recurved helmet-wise, of several (6-10) keeled, clubbed, glossy-black, 

 imbricated feathers, more than an inch, long when fully developed; in the 9 , smaller, of fewer 

 feathers. Tarsus slightly shorter than middle toe and claw. Tail about ^ as long as the wing ; 



