I04 The Partridge Family 



young run as soon as hatched, and in their habits 

 of hiding and taking advantage of the slightest 

 cover resemble the young of the Bob-white. 

 Frequently two broods are raised in a season. 

 The love call cannot well be represented in type ; 

 the alarm note is a grating sound, while the signal 

 to decamp is an unmistakable quit. 



THE MASSENA PARTRIDGE 

 {Crytonyx montezuma) 



Adult malt — Forehead, black, with white stripe passing upward 

 from nostril ; top of head, pale brown, barred with black ; occi- 

 put, plain brown, feathers forming a short, thick crest ; rest of 

 head, white, with a plumbeous stripe from angle of mouth, ex- 

 tending in a curved line beneath the ear, meeting a broader line 

 that crosses itr at right angles, and extends from above the ear 

 to the lower margin of the black throat ; a small triangular 

 curved black patch beneath the eye ; the brown of the head is 

 separated from the white by a narrow black line ; the white, on 

 side and fore neck, is margined beneath by a rather broad 

 black band ; upper parts, reddish brown, barred with black, and 

 streaked with buflf ; secondaries, pale purplish gray, spotted with 

 black; primaries, dark brown, the outer webs spotted with 

 white; sides of breast and flanks, dark plumbeous, almost 

 black, spotted with white ; line through middle of breast and 

 the belly, dark chestnut ; rest of under parts and thighs, velvety 

 black ; maxilla, black ; mandible, black, with yellowish spot on 

 the side. Total length, 8J inches ; wing, 5 ; tail, 2^; tarsus, ij; 

 bill, along culmen, \. 



Adult female — General color, light pinkish cinnamon, upper parts 

 barred with black. Head, without black or white stripes, barred 

 on top and crest with black ; throat, pinky white ; a few black 

 spots on flanks and lower parts of chest ; abdomen and anal 

 region, buff; secondaries, brownish black, barred with pale 

 cinnamon ; primaries, dark brown, spotted with white on outer 



