As a preliminary to discussion of the skins collected as specimens 
during this ’work characters of typical native quail Qolinua v. virginianus 
and of Mexican quail C. x* .teacanu® may be summarized as follows: 
(a) £• 1* vlrMnlanug .—Size large; back, head, and flanks varying 
from russet to hazel, distinctly rufoscent; tertials, scapulars, and back 
with large blotches of black; dark bars on under surface narrow. 
(b) C. v. texams .—Size snail; back, head, and flanks grayish car 
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olivaceous brown, rufescent tinge if present confined to upper back and 
hind neck; black blotches on tertials, scapulars, and back small or absent ; 
dorsal surface with &ne but distinct cross bars of buff; black bars cn 
under surface broad®* and heavier. 
fhe so-called '^Mexican** bird is distinctly grayish above and has 
the under sarface very heavily bar red with black, characters that distin¬ 
guish it at a giro'oo from typical virdLalaiias . 
During this work attempt was made, not to secure large northers of 
the assumption that as it was the beginning of the hunting season and the 
birds had not bean scattered, each covey represented In the main the off¬ 
spring of one pair of birds, ani that its members would show more or less 
similar character®. 
