TETRAONID^—ODONTOPHORIN^: PARTRIDGES OR QUAIL. 591 
572. 
►73. 
574, 
O. V. florida'na. (Of Florida.) Florida Quail. Rather smaller, the $ about the size of 
the 9 virginiana, but bill relatively larger, and jet-black ; colors darker, all the black mark- 
ings heavier, those of the under parts nearly as broad as the intervening white spaces. Florida, 
and similar specimens in the lower Mississippi Valley; an approach to the Cuban form 
(0. cubanensis). 
O. V. texa'na. (Of Texas.) Texas Quail. Size oi floridana ; colors paler, the prevailing 
shade rather gray than brown ; upper parts much variegated with tawny. Eggs 1.20 X 0.93. 
These two are mere climatic varieties of one species. 
OROR'TYX. (Or. opos, oros, a mountain ; oprv^, ortux, a quail.) Plumed Quail. Head 
adorned with an arrowy crest of two slender keeled plumes, 3-4 inches long in the ^ when 
full-developed ; present in 9 ? shorter. Bill and feet stout ; tarsus equal to the middle toe and 
Size large; colors massed 
claw. Tail about | the wing, broad, rounded, with long coverts 
in large areas ; sexes alike. Eggs colored. One species. 
O. pic'ta. (Lat. _23ic^a, pictured, painted. Fig. 411.) Plumed Partridge. Mountain Quail 
of the Californians. J" 9 > iidult: Back, wings and tail 
olive-brown, the inner secondaries and tertiaries bordered 
with whitish or tawny, forming a lengthwise border in 
single line when the wings are folded; the primaries fus- 
cous, the tail-feathers fuscous, minutely marbled with 
the color of the back. 
Fore - parts, above 
and below, slaty- 
blue (above more or 
less glossed with 
the olive shade of 
the back, belov/ mi- 
nutely marbled with 
black) ; the throat 
chestnut, immedi- 
ately bordered lat- 
erally with black, 
then framed in a 
firm white line, 
broken through the 
eye, reappearing 
around base of un- 
der mandible. Ex- 
treme forehead whitish. The arrow-plumes black. Belly chestnut, the sides banded with 
broad bars of black and w^hite, or rufous- white ; middle of the lower belly, tibia, and flanks, 
whitish or rufous; crissum velvety-black, streaked with chestnut. Bill dusky, paler below; 
feet brown. Length 11.00-12.00; extent 16.00-17.00; wing 5.00-5.50; tail 3.00-3.50; tarsus 
1.67 ; middle toe and claw about the same. An elegant species, much larger and more beauti- 
ful than the Bob- white, inhabiting the mountainous parts of Oregon, California and Nevada. 
The relative extent of the olive and slaty parts is very variable. Tliere is something of a 
grouse in the composition of this partridge. Egg a miniature of the ruffed grouse's, only dis- 
tinguished by smaller size — 1.40 X 1-10. 
LOPHOR'TYX. (Gr. Xocpos, lophos, a crest; opTv|, ortux, a quail.) Helmet Quail. 
*With an elegant crest, recurved helmet-wise, of several (6-10) keeled, clubbed, glossy-black, 
imbricated feathers, more than an inch long when fully developed ; in the 9 , smaller, of fewer 
feathers. Tarsus slightly shorter than middle toe and claw. Tail about -| as long as the wing ; 
Fig. 410.— Helmet Quail (L. gambeli 
nat. size. (Ad nat. del. E. C.) 
Fig. 411. — Plumed Quail. (From Ten- 
ney, after Audubon. ) 
