bob-whiten.
/ˈbɒbhwʌɪt/ A popular name of the common partridge of North America ( Odontophorus virginianus).
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1812 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. VI. 25 The quail..will sometimes sit, repeating, at short intervals, ‘Bob White’, for half an hour at a time.]
1819 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. XI. ii. 380 By the natives of New England they [sc. Northern Colins] are called bob-white.
1883 Cent. Mag. Aug. 483/1 Of all the game birds of America, none is better appreciated by the sportsman than little Bob-white.
1907 Westm. 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.
1936 T. S. Eliot Coll. Poems 152 The bob-white Dodging by bay-bush.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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