OF VIRGINIA 83 
FAMILY ODONTOPHORID/E.—BOB- 
WHITES, QUAILS, ETC. 
GENUS COLINUS. 
[289]. Colinus virginianus virginianus (Linneus). 
Bobwhite. 
[Quail. Partridge]. 
Rancre.—Upper Sonoran and southern half of Tran- 
sition 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. 
“The gamest bird that flies,’ some sportsmen call him, 
and all through the summer from the ditch, corn, 
and fence rows, briar patches, and open grain fields, comes 
the cheery call. of “Bobwhite, Bobwhite,” making him 
universally known, from the farmer at the plow to the 
autoist as he speeds along the country road. Notwith- 
standing he is persistently pursued year after year, even 
before the open season begins, and sometimes before many 
of the young birds are over half grown, this bird is hold- 
ing its own fairly well all over this section. Weather con- 
ditions also have much to do with their numbers; notably, 
the season of 1911, birds were more numerous than for 
many years previous, due to the dry summer, but the long- 
continued cold weather, snow and sleet of January and 
February of 1912, depleted, if not wiped out entirely, 
