134 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Order GALLINjE. Gallinaceous Birds. 



Suborder PHASIANI. Pheasants, Grouse, 

 Partridges, Quails, etc. 



Family ODONTOFHORID.S. Bob-whites, Quails, etc. 



Genus COLINUS Goldfuss. 



Colinus Goldfuss, Handbuch Zool., II, 1820, 220. Type, by monotypy, 

 "Perdix mexicanus, Caille de la Louisiana, PI. Enl. 149" = Tetrao 



virginianus Linnaeus. 



Colinus virgini^us (Linn^us). 



Range. — Eastern North America from South Dakota and southern 

 Maine to Florida, the Gulf coast, Texas, and eastern Mexico. 



a. Colinus Tirginianus virginianus (Linnaeus). ' Bob-white. [289.] 



Tetrao virginianus Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 161. (Carolina.) 



Range.- — Upper Sonoran and southern half of Transition zones of eastern 

 North America from South Dakota, southern Minnesota, southern Ontario, 

 and southwestern Maine south to eastern and northern Texas, the Gulf coast, 

 and northern Florida west to eastern Colorado; introduced in central Colorado, 

 New Mexico, Utah, Idaho, California, Oregon, and Washington. 



b. Colinus virginianus florid&nus (Coues). Florida Bob-vhite. [289a.] 



Ortyx virginianus var. floridanus Coties, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 237. 

 (Enterprise, Volusia Co., Florida.) 



Range. — Florida, except extreme northern part. 



c. Colinus virginianus tezfinus (Lawrence). Texas Bob-white. [2896.] 



Ortyx texanus Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. H. N. Y., VI, 1853, 1. (Near 

 Ringgold Barracks, Texas.) 



Range. — Southeastern corner of New Mexico to southern Texas, and 

 south through northeastern Coahuila and Nuevo Leon to central Tamaulipas. 



