. The bird book : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . lnd !■ was I I Bl IB w 11 lit. H Eh H 1 £ i> rt W £ o - fe GALLINACEOUS BIRDS GALLINACEOUS BIRDS. Order X. GALLINGGROUSE, PARTRIDGES, ETC. Family TETRAONIDAE The members of this family arc 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
. The bird book : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . lnd !■ was I I Bl IB w 11 lit. H Eh H 1 £ i> rt W £ o - fe GALLINACEOUS BIRDS GALLINACEOUS BIRDS. Order X. GALLINGGROUSE, PARTRIDGES, ETC. Family TETRAONIDAE The members of this family arc 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. 289- Bob-white. Colinus virginianus virginianus. Range.—United States east of North Dakota andTexas and from the southern British Provinces tothe Gulf coast. A celebrated game bird which 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 aff
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