Order GtALLINzE. Gallinaceous Birds. 



Suborder PHASIANI. Pheasants, Grouse, Partridges, 

 Quails, etc. 



Family TETRAONID^. Grouse, PAnxHiDfiES, etc. 



Subfamily PERDICIN^. Pahtridces. 



Genus COLINUS Lesson. 



COLINUS VIRGINIANUS (Lixn.). 



126. 'Bob-white. (289) 



Coronal feathers erectile, but not forming a true crest. Forehead, super- 

 ciliary line and throat, white, bordered with black ; crown, neck all round and 

 upper part of breast, brownish-red ; other under parts, tawny-whitisli, all with 

 more or fewer doubly crescentic black bars; sides, broadly streaked with 

 brownish-red; upper parts, variegated with chestnut, black, gray and tawny, 

 the latter edging the inner quills. Ftmale: — Known by having the throat buff 

 instead of the white, less black about the foreparts, and general colors less 

 intense, rather smaller than the male. Length, 9-10; wing, 4A-.5: tail, 24-.3. 



Hab. — Eastern United States and southern Canada, from southern Maine to 

 the South Atlantic and (jlulf States, west to Dakota, eastern Kansas and eastern 

 Texas. 



