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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a popular North American game bird; named for its call [syn: bobwhite, bobwhite quail, partridge]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: imitative Date: 1819 any of a genus (Colinus) of quail; especially a popular game bird (C. virginianus) of eastern and central North America having mottled chiefly reddish-brown plumage

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bobwhite Bob"white`, n. (Zo["o]l.) The common quail of North America (Colinus, or Ortyx, Virginianus); -- so called from its note.