. Michigan bird life : a list of all the bird species known to occur in the State together with an outline of their classification and an account of the life history of each species, with special reference to its relation to agriculture ... . Fig. CI. Ruffed Grouse. Family 31. ODONTOPHORIDAE. Quail or Bob white. Only a single species, the common Quail or Bob-white, is native to Mich-igan. Several other quails, from the Pacific states and the southwest, arefound occasionally in captivity in a half-domesticated state. Those mostoften seen thus are the California Quail and Gambels Quail, conspicu
. Michigan bird life : a list of all the bird species known to occur in the State together with an outline of their classification and an account of the life history of each species, with special reference to its relation to agriculture ... . Fig. CI. Ruffed Grouse. Family 31. ODONTOPHORIDAE. Quail or Bob white. Only a single species, the common Quail or Bob-white, is native to Mich-igan. Several other quails, from the Pacific states and the southwest, arefound occasionally in captivity in a half-domesticated state. Those mostoften seen thus are the California Quail and Gambels Quail, conspicuousfor the beautiful crest of recurved feathers. 120. Quail. Colinus virginianus virginianus {Linn.). (289) Synonyms: Bob-white, Virginia Partridge.—Tetrao virginianus, Linn., 1758.—Perdixvirginiana, Lath., Wils., Aud., and others.—Ortyx virginiana, Jard., and many recentauthors. Figure 60. So well known as hardly to need description, but the small size, whitethroat, and mottled brown, black and white plumage will readily separateit from the only birds with which it could be LAND BIRDS. 221 -• Distribution.—Eastern United States and southern Ontario, fromsouthern Maine to the South Atlantic and Gulf States; west to centralSouth Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and eastern Texas. Breedsthroughout its range. In Michigan the Quail is abundant only in the southern half of the state,although it occurs at favorable points over the entire Lower sole record for the Upper Peninsula isthat by Dr. S. Kneeland, who reported it asnot uncommon on Keweenaw Point, themost northern point of the state, in record is as follows: This is anotherof the birds that follow man in his agricul-tural movements. A few years since Quailswere unknown in the Upper Peninsula; nowthey are not uncommon on the Point; as yetthey have not been seen on Portage LakeAs more attention is paid to agriculture forthe support of the mining population, the Fig. 60. Bob-whit
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