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Definition of Mountain quail
1. Noun. California partridge; slightly larger than the California quail.
Generic synonyms: Partridge
Group relationships: Genus Oreortyx, Oreortyx
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mountain Quail
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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