. Bird-life : a guide to the study of our common birds . -i\ they spring into the air, their short,strong wings enabling them to reach their greatest speedwithin a short distance of the starting paint. One of the best-known members of this distinguished family is our familiar Bob-white, the Quail of the North and Partridge of the South. The fact r, T . is, he is neither a true Quail nor Par- Cohnus virgiiiiarius. ^ 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, f ndwherever [^ound is resident thro
. Bird-life : a guide to the study of our common birds . -i\ they spring into the air, their short,strong wings enabling them to reach their greatest speedwithin a short distance of the starting paint. One of the best-known members of this distinguished family is our familiar Bob-white, the Quail of the North and Partridge of the South. The fact r, T . is, he is neither a true Quail nor Par- Cohnus virgiiiiarius. ^ 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, f ndwherever [^ound 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 femnle. 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. Page 126. Length, 6-50 inches. Upper parts dusky olive-green; under partswhitish, washed with dusky; lower mandible yellowish. RUFFED GROUSE. 101 they mean to those who love them ? The promise ofSj)ring, its fiilfiUmsnt 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 f where are you ? is equally associatedwith the season. Tlie Bob-white nests about May 20, laying from tento eighteen white eggs in a nest on the ground. The Ruffed Grouse, or Partridge of the North andPheasant of the South, is properly a true Grouse, andRuffed 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 distri
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