148 BIRD NAMES. [No. 42. 



and showing broadly in the vicinity of lower belly. Bill black. 

 Legs gray. 



Length about ten and a quarter inches ; extent fifteen to six- 

 teen inches. 



Female. Resembling male in general appearance, but a little 

 smaller ; throat-patch and line over eye yellowish brown or buff 

 (instead of white) ; marking beneath throat-patch much less dark ; 

 reddish brown of head lighter ; under parts of body less broken 

 by markings. Bill blackish, with lower part at base flesh-colored. 



BOB-WHITE, so termed in imitation of its whistle, and the 

 • species is perhaps more widely recognized by this name than by 

 any other, and though the name has been generally regarded as 

 belonging rather to the pet-name or nickname order, it is now 

 dignified by the endorsement of the American Ornithologists' 

 Union, in its Code and Check List, 1886. There are several 

 other imitations (regarded by none as names), like "no more 

 wet," " more wet," " more wheat," " buck-wheat," etc. 



Other titles copied from early and late authors are VIR- 

 GINIAN PARTRIDGE, MARYLAND PARTRIDGE, AMERICAN 

 PARTRIDGE, COMMON AMERICAN PARTRIDGE, VIRGINIAN 

 QUAIL, MARYLAND QUAIL, AMERICAN QUAIL, VIRGINIAN 

 COLIN, AMERICAN COLIN: the word "colin" being a Mexican 

 name (for birds of the " quail-partridge " kind) brought to the 

 notice of European naturalists by the work of Hernandez on the 

 Natural History of Mexico, 1628, best known by edition of 1651. 



Just how far north this bird is found in the "West I cannot 

 say, but in New England it is seldom seen as far north as 

 Maine. From these northern limits to as far south as New 

 Jersey it is the QUAIL, and in Southern States the PARTRIDGE 

 (see No. 41). "Frank Forester" (Herbert) covered the ground 

 as follows : " "Where the ruffed grouse [No. 41] is called a part- 

 ridge, the bird of which we are now speaking [No. 42] is called 

 a quail . . . where the ruffed grouse is called the pheasant, our 

 bird becomes the partridge." — American edition of Hawker, 

 1846. To this rule there are now numerous exceptions. In 

 New Jersey, for instance, in many places where No. 42 is called 



