| 单词 | mountain quail |
| 例句 | The present species, the mountain quail, is generally found in the canyons and on the damp hill-sides where ferns are abundant. Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast 2011-11-18T03:00:28.323Z While walking with him in his garden, he asked me if I had ever seen a mountain quail on her nest. The Comstock Club 2011-05-18T02:00:16.367Z There were no quail native to Washington or to Oregon, except the southern portion thereof—save the mountain quail, a lonely solitary bird, of about twice the size of the bob-white. Memoirs of Orange Jacobs 2011-05-01T02:00:10.143Z As he walked on there came to his listening ears the shrill whistle of a mountain quail as it sang out its note of warning to its hidden mate near. The Nightrider's Feud Certain species of grouse, and especially the sage grouse, mountain quail, and others, which inhabit sparsely settled regions, are thought to be still holding their ground, but should be more carefully protected. Conservation Reader As with the mountain quail the ornithologist has taken the wrong bird for the type, making the larger race the subspecies. Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast 2011-11-18T03:00:28.323Z There is only one other bird in Colorado that has so high a summer range, and that is the white-tailed ptarmigan, usually called, in hunter's parlance, the "mountain quail." Our Bird Comrades This bird is colloquially called the "mountain quail." Birds of the Rockies Say shall Destruction's lava load the gale, The furnace quiver and the mountain quail? The Book of Humorous Verse One after another, with sprightly steps, a covey of mountain quail crossed the road before them, leaving little starlike tracks in the dust. Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail Like the mountain quail it does not cross the Colorado desert into Arizona or the mainland of Mexico. Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast 2011-11-18T03:00:28.323Z While I was laid up Chauvin got two more bucks, several tree squirrels and some mountain quail. Out of Doors—California and Oregon Dozens of valley and mountain quail called with maddening cheerfulness and energy. The Mountains The blue grouse and mountain quail are plentiful in the woods and the sage-hen on the plains about the northern base of the mountain, while innumerable smaller birds enliven and sweeten every thicket and grove. Steep Trails California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon "I will give him my humming-bird skin, and you shall give him your mountain quail head; then he will be pleased with us," answered Nopal. History of California The wild turkey, like the mountain quail, has an up and down mountain migration. Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast 2011-11-18T03:00:28.323Z These, as well as the mountain quail, swallow whole the acorns, which this season lay beneath the live oak trees in lavish abundance; long thin acorns, quite different from ours. American Big Game in Its Haunts He came to know the ground-nesting birds and the difference between the customs of the valley quail, the mountain quail, and the pheasants. Michael, Brother of Jerry Next day we went by trail through the woods, seeing some deer—which were not wild—as well as mountain quail and blue grouse. American Big Game in Its Haunts |
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