KEY AND DESCRIPTION 



1. Bob-white (289. CoUyuis virginiitnus). — A common grass- 

 inhabitins, brownish-mottled, white-throated, game bird, with 



the belly much lighter 

 than the back. The 

 female has a butf 

 throat patch instead 

 of the white of the 

 male. The notes bob- 

 ivhite so often heard 

 in spring are given by 

 this bird. In sum- 

 mer, the crown is 

 blacker, and the buffy 

 markings lighter than 

 in winter. The tints 

 of the back have 

 much of reddish- 

 brown and chestnut, 

 and the lower breast 

 and belly are white barred with black. (Quail ; Virginia Par- 

 tridge.) 



Length, 10 ; wing, 4J (4|-4}) ; tail, 2^ ; tarsus, 1^ ; oulmen, f . TJnited 

 States from Kansas eastward and north to southern Ontario. It is also 

 found locally in many places west of the Rocky Mountains, even to the 

 Pacific. The Florida Bob-white (289\ C. u. foridanus) of Florida is a 

 smaller bird, with darker plumage, especially with more black on the back. 

 The regular northern bob- white will occasionally take to the trees when 

 flushed, but the Florida bird is more apt to do so. The Texan Bob-white 

 (289''. C. V. texanus) of Texas and Mexico is a small bird like the last, 

 but paler, having much gray and tawny in the plumage. 



2. Scaled Partridge (293. Callipipla sqiiamd,ta). — A Texas, 

 crested, bluish-lead-colored quail, with the neck and most under 

 parts peculiarly " scaled " by crescent-shaped black tips to all 

 the feathers. The crest is dark brown, ending in pure white, 

 and the back belly orange-brown. (Blue Quail.) 



Length, 10-12 ; wing, 4J (4^-5) ; tail, 4J- ; tarsus, 1\. Table-lands of 

 Mexico, north to central Texas and southern Arizona, 



