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noun
- any of several American quail of the genus Colinus, especially C. virginianus (northern bobwhite), having mottled reddish-brown, black, and white plumage.
noun
- a brown North American quail, Colinus virginianus, the male of which has white markings on the head: a popular game bird
North American partridge, 1819, so called from the sound of its cry.