. Bird-life; a guide to the study of our common birds . Plate XL SPOTTED SANDrilER, Lengtli, inches. Adult, upper parts brownish gray and black ; underparts white spotted with black ; a white patch in wing. Young, similar, butwithout black. , 1050 inches. Upper parts brownish gray, upper tail-coTerts rusty ;under parts white ; two bauds on breast, crown and lores black, foreheadand nape white. 109 THE LAND BIRDS. (ORDER GALLING.) Bob-whites, Grouse, etc. (Family Tetraonid^.) This is tlie faniilj of the game birds—the aristocratsof the bird world. They are
. Bird-life; a guide to the study of our common birds . Plate XL SPOTTED SANDrilER, Lengtli, inches. Adult, upper parts brownish gray and black ; underparts white spotted with black ; a white patch in wing. Young, similar, butwithout black. , 1050 inches. Upper parts brownish gray, upper tail-coTerts rusty ;under parts white ; two bauds on breast, crown and lores black, foreheadand nape white. 109 THE LAND BIRDS. (ORDER GALLING.) Bob-whites, Grouse, etc. (Family Tetraonid^.) This is tlie faniilj of the game birds—the aristocratsof the bird world. They are protectively colored birds,their rich brown, l)uif, and black plnniage harmoniz-ing with their snrroundings. Relying on their iiicon-spiciionsness, they avoid danger by hiding rather than byflight, taking wing only as a final resort. Then, with astartling ■whlt-r-i\ they spring into the air, their short,strong wings enabling them to reach their greatest speedwithin a short distance of the starting point. One of the best-known members of this dist
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