. Bird-life: a guide to the study of our common birds . hen, with astarthng whir-r-r, they spring into the air, their short,strong wings enabhng them to reach their greatest speedwithin a short distance of the starting point. One of the best-known members of this distinguishedfamily is our familiar Bob-white, the Quail of the Northand Partridge of the South. The factCoU^u^J^^Lus. is, he is neither a true Quail nor Par-tridge, and those who claim that butone of these names is correct may compromise on Bob-white. The Bob-white inhabits the eastern United States, andwherever found is resident thr
. Bird-life: a guide to the study of our common birds . hen, with astarthng whir-r-r, they spring into the air, their short,strong wings enabhng them to reach their greatest speedwithin a short distance of the starting point. One of the best-known members of this distinguishedfamily is our familiar Bob-white, the Quail of the Northand Partridge of the South. The factCoU^u^J^^Lus. is, he is neither a true Quail nor Par-tridge, and those who claim that butone of these names is correct may compromise on Bob-white. The Bob-white inhabits the eastern United States, andwherever found is resident throughout the year. Thesexes are much alike in color, the only important differ-ence being in the throat and the line over the eye, whichare white in the male and buff in the female. No bird better illustrates the peculiar potency ofbird song, and the hopelessness of attempting to express itscharm. If I should describe Bob-whites call to a personwho had never heard it, as two ringing notes, do yousuppose he would have the faintest conception of what 100. Plate XXXIII. WOOD PEWEE. Paoe 126. Length, 6-50 inches. Upper parts dusky olive-greeii; under partswhitish, washed with dusky; lower mandible yellowish. RUFFED GROUSE. 101 they mean to those who love them ? The promise ofSpring, its fulfillment in summer, is clearly told in Bob-whites greeting. Then, in the autumn, when the mem-bers of a scattered bevy are signaling each other, theirsweet where are you ? where are you ? is equally associatedwith the season. The Bob-white nests about May 20, laying from tento eighteen white eggs in a nest on the ground. The Eufied Grouse, or Partridge of the North andPheasant of the South, is properly a true Grouse, andKuffed Grouse ^^^ ^^^ ^® correctly called either Par-Bonasa umbeiius. tridge Or Pheasant. He is a morePlate XII. northern bird than the Bob-white, be- ing found south of Virginia only in the large tracts of woodland for his haunts, heis less generally distribu
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