Species of bird in the New World quail family.
1 A gaggle of Catholic schoolgirls scattered like blue quail , pigtails flying, as the fugitives stampeded through them.
2 The haunts of the blue quail are really no place for a dog, as he soon becomes useless.
3 Suddenly out of the grass burst a blue quail , running with wings outstretched and every feather ruffled angrily.
4 Where the prickly-pear cactus is thickest, there are the blue quail , since that is their feed and water supply.
5 One does not need him, either, since the blue quail will not flush until actually kicked into the air.
6 Heavy shot are necessary, since the blue quail carry lead like Marshal Massena, and are much harder to kill than the bob-white.
7 Other times he went to the foot of the mountains and hunted the blue quail and cotton tail rabbits in the arroyos of the foot-hills.
Grammar, pronunciation and more
This collocation consists of: Translations for blue quail