Bob-white 
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them. As they walk, they bob their heads in 
a funny manner of their own. They are bluish, 
fawn-coloured birds about a foot long. The 
male has some exqtiisite metallic colours on 
his neck, otherwise he resembles his best be- 
loved. Both wear black crescent patches on 
their cheeks. All the feathers on their long, 
pointed tails, except the two largest central 
ones, have a narrow, black band across the end 
and are tipped with white. The breast feathers 
shade from pinkish fawn to pale buff below. 
BeautiM birds these, in spite of their quiet, 
•Quaker clothes. 
BOB-WHITE 
Called Also: “ Quail-on-Toast” ; Partridge 
What a cheerful contrast is Bob White’s 
clear, staccato whistle to the drawling coo of 
the amorotis dove! Character is often ex- 
pressed in a bird’s voice as well as in ours. 
From their voices alone you might guess that 
the dove and the quail are no relation. They 
do not belong even to the same order, bob- 
white being a scratching bird and having the 
ruffed grouse and barnyard chicken for his kin. 
Pheasants and turkeys are distantly related. 
In the South people call him a partridge; in 
