. The bird book, illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds, also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . NEST AND EGGS OF BOB-WHITE C. A. 5 I o g ffl fe GALLINACEOUS BIRDS GALLINACEOUS BIRDS. Order X. GALLINGGROUSE, PARTRIDGES, ETC. Family TETRAONIDAE The members of this family are birds of robust form, subdued (not brightlycolored) plumage, comparatively short legs and necks; the tarsi and toes arefeathered in the Ptarmigan, the tarsi, only, feathered in the Grouse, and thetarsi and toes bare In the Partridges and Bob-whites. They feed up
. The bird book, illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds, also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . NEST AND EGGS OF BOB-WHITE C. A. 5 I o g ffl fe GALLINACEOUS BIRDS GALLINACEOUS BIRDS. Order X. GALLINGGROUSE, PARTRIDGES, ETC. Family TETRAONIDAE The members of this family are birds of robust form, subdued (not brightlycolored) plumage, comparatively short legs and necks; the tarsi and toes arefeathered in the Ptarmigan, the tarsi, only, feathered in the Grouse, and thetarsi and toes bare In the Partridges and Bob-whites. They feed upon berries,buds, grain and insects. ig 289- Bob-white. Colinus virginianus virginianus. Range.—United States east ot North Dakota andTexas and from the southern Britlsli Provinces tothe Gulf coast. A celebrated game bird w^hich has been hunt-ed so assiduously in New England that it is uponthe verge of extermination, and the covers haveto be continually replenished with birds trappedin the south and west. They frequent open fields,which have a luxuriantgrowth of weeds, orgrain fields in the nests are builtalong the roadsides, orbeside stonewalls orany place affording sat-is
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