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