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bob-white|ˈbɒbhwaɪt|
[So called from its note.]
A popular name of the common partridge of North America (Odontophorus Virginianus).
[1812Wilson Amer. Ornith. VI. 25 The quail..will sometimes sit, repeating, at short intervals, ‘Bob White’, for half an hour at a time.] 1819J. F. Stephens in Shaw's Gen. Zool. XI. ii. 380 By the natives of New England they [sc. Northern Colins] are called bob-white. 1883Century Mag. Aug. 483/1 Of all the game birds of America, none is better appreciated by the sportsman than little Bob-white. 1907Westm. Gaz. 24 Aug. 16/1 The Virginian quail is more familiarly known by the name of ‘Bob White’, being the nearest rendering of the clear and loud call of the male bird. 1936T. S. Eliot Coll. Poems 1909–35 152 The bob-white Dodging by bay-bush. |