Plate LXXVI. Male, Female, and Young.
Male with a short broad crest; the forehead, a broad band over the
eye, and the throat, white; loral space, a band below the eye, and a
broad semilunar band on the fore neck, black; upper part of the head,
hind and lower part of the neck all round, brownish-red; upper parts
variegated with chestnut-red, black, grey, and yellowish; lower
yellowish-white, undulatingly barred with black, the sides streaked
with red. Female similar, but without a black band on the fore neck,
its place being merely spotted, and with the throat and a band over
the eye brownish-yellow. Young with the feathers having a central
yellowish line, the lower parts dull yellowish-brown, without black
bands.
_Male_, 10, 15. _Female_, 9-1/2, 14.
Breeds abundantly from Texas to Massachusetts; in the interior, high
on the Missouri, and in all intermediate districts.
Quail or Partridge, Perdix virginiana, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. vi.
p. 21.
Perdix virginiana, Bonap. Syn. p. 124.
American Partridge or Quail, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 647.
Virginian Partridge, Perdix virginiana, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. i.
p. 388; v. v. p. 564.