. The gallinaceous game birds of North America, including the partridges, grouse, ptarmigan, and wild turkeys . tblack, and the chestnut flank feathers are marked on their outerwebs with white and jet black. Lower abdomen and vent, duskywhite barred with black. The back, wings, and tail are similar tothose of the typical style, but much darker in all the colors,except perhaps the tail feathers, which are not much different inhue from those of the Northern Bob White. Throat and line 34 GAME BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA. over eye, pure white. Total length about 7f inches ; wing, 4f ;tail, 2| ; tarsus,
. The gallinaceous game birds of North America, including the partridges, grouse, ptarmigan, and wild turkeys . tblack, and the chestnut flank feathers are marked on their outerwebs with white and jet black. Lower abdomen and vent, duskywhite barred with black. The back, wings, and tail are similar tothose of the typical style, but much darker in all the colors,except perhaps the tail feathers, which are not much different inhue from those of the Northern Bob White. Throat and line 34 GAME BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA. over eye, pure white. Total length about 7f inches ; wing, 4f ;tail, 2| ; tarsus, \\ ; bill, \. It will be seen from the above that the Florida bird is bothdarker and rather smaller than C. virginianus. Adult Female.—In her coloring this sex of the Florida Quailbears the same relation to the male as the hen of the NorthernBob White does to him, and is arrayed in hues of variousshades, as much darker as those of the male Florida bird aredarker than those of the Virginian species. She has the buffthroat and stripe over the eye, and her dimensions are about thesame as those of the Copyrighted by Francis P. Harper, iS07. 3. Texan Bob White. TEXAN BOB WHITE. C XCEPTING the Staked-Plains in the northwest part^ of the State, this bird is a resident of the greater por-tion of Texas, and grades in the east into the true BobWhite of the Atlantic States. It has a general resem-blance to the Northern bird, but is lighter in color, andthe male has usually a pale cinnamon chestband beneaththe black collar. In habits it does not differ from BobWhite, and the notes and calls it utters are the same asthose of the common Quail. In most parts of the Statethey are tame and unsuspicious, hardly taking the troubleto get out of the way of approaching danger. The malesare pugnacious, though, and frequent battles occur be-tween rivals for the affection of some shy female, whoall the time regards the combatants with seeming indif-ference, as if not caring especially which o
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