. Birds of village and field: a bird book for beginners . m-virate, Audubon, Wilson, and Nuttall, gives amost interesting experience of his with a Par-tridge who had only one young bird, and on beingovertaken, after fluttering before him for a mo-ment, suddenly darting toward the young one,seized it in her bill and flew off. Bob-white: Colinus virginianus. Adult male, upj^er parts wood-brown; throat and line frombill to neck white ; black patch on breast; rest of under partswhitish barred with black. Adult female, similar, but throatbuffy, and black of breast less or absent. Length, 10 inches.
. Birds of village and field: a bird book for beginners . m-virate, Audubon, Wilson, and Nuttall, gives amost interesting experience of his with a Par-tridge who had only one young bird, and on beingovertaken, after fluttering before him for a mo-ment, suddenly darting toward the young one,seized it in her bill and flew off. Bob-white: Colinus virginianus. Adult male, upj^er parts wood-brown; throat and line frombill to neck white ; black patch on breast; rest of under partswhitish barred with black. Adult female, similar, but throatbuffy, and black of breast less or absent. Length, 10 inches. Geographic Distribution. — Eastern United States fromsouthern Maine and the Dakotas southward to the Gulf ofMexico ; resident Avherever found. This beautiful bird is known mainly as Quailon toast, but in use-fulness and interestof habit it holds ahigh place amongour birds. As aweed-seed and in-sect destroyer it isof such economicimportance that inWisconsin, whereit has been practi-cally exterminated,attempts have recently been made to reestablish Fig. 38 BOB-WHITE It eats the potato beetle — seventy-five potato bugswere found in one Quail stomach — and it is par-ticularly fond of the moth that lays the egg thatproduces the injurious, omnivorous cutworm. Aseach moth lays multitudes of eggs, the destructionof a few thousands of moths at the right time
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