Definition of Mountain quail

1. Noun. California partridge; slightly larger than the California quail.

Exact synonyms: Mountain Partridge, Oreortyx Picta Palmeri
Generic synonyms: Partridge
Group relationships: Genus Oreortyx, Oreortyx

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mountain Quail

mountain man
mountain maple
mountain mint
mountain nyala
mountain oak
mountain oysters
mountain paca
mountain parsley fern
mountain partridge
mountain peak
mountain phlox
mountain pine
mountain pride
mountain quail (current term)
mountain range
mountain ranges
mountain reindeer
mountain rice
mountain rimu
mountain ringlet
mountain ringlets
mountain rose
mountain sandwort
mountain sheep
mountain sickness
mountain skink
mountain spinach
mountain spleenwort

Literary usage of Mountain quail

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Southern California: Its Valleys, Hills and Streams; Its Animals, Birds, and by Theodore Strong Van Dyke (1886)
"THE mountain quail. As we pass from the lowlands of California to the pine-clad hills that lie so hazily blue in the eastern sky, the valley quail becomes ..."

2. American Game-bird Shooting by George Bird Grinnell (1910)
"The mountain quail is a bird only casually pursued by the gunner. Often they are flushed and shot, and in some localities they are regularly pursued with ..."

3. Upland Game Birds by Edwyn Sandys, Theodore Strong Van Dyke (1902)
"THE MOUNTAIN-QUAIL When we climb the larger hills of the Pacific Coast to where the perennial brooks sing down dark defiles, and the columbine and the ..."

4. Upland Game Birds by Edwyn Sandys, Theodore Strong Van Dyke (1902)
"THE MOUNTAIN-QUAIL When we climb the larger hills of the Pacific Coast to where the perennial brooks sing down dark defiles, and the columbine and the ..."

5. Zoe: A Biological Journal by Townshend Stith Brandegee, Katharine Layne Brandegee (1908)
"... OF THE GROUSE AND mountain quail OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA. BY L. BELDING. In autumn the grouse ('Dendragapus obscurus fuliginosus), of the Sierra Nevada at ..."

6. Southern California: Its Valleys, Hills and Streams; Its Animals, Birds, and by Theodore Strong Van Dyke (1886)
"THE mountain quail. As we pass from the lowlands of California to the pine-clad hills that lie so hazily blue in the eastern sky, the valley quail becomes ..."

7. American Game-bird Shooting by George Bird Grinnell (1910)
"The mountain quail is a bird only casually pursued by the gunner. Often they are flushed and shot, and in some localities they are regularly pursued with ..."

8. Upland Game Birds by Edwyn Sandys, Theodore Strong Van Dyke (1902)
"THE MOUNTAIN-QUAIL When we climb the larger hills of the Pacific Coast to where the perennial brooks sing down dark defiles, and the columbine and the ..."

9. Upland Game Birds by Edwyn Sandys, Theodore Strong Van Dyke (1902)
"THE MOUNTAIN-QUAIL When we climb the larger hills of the Pacific Coast to where the perennial brooks sing down dark defiles, and the columbine and the ..."

10. Zoe: A Biological Journal by Townshend Stith Brandegee, Katharine Layne Brandegee (1908)
"... OF THE GROUSE AND mountain quail OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA. BY L. BELDING. In autumn the grouse ('Dendragapus obscurus fuliginosus), of the Sierra Nevada at ..."

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