Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1905 — Our Misnamed Quail. [ARTICLE]

Our Misnamed Quail.

America’s typical game bird, the quail, is not named correctly at all, according to the government ornithologist. lie says that the real quail is the quail of the Bible and that this is a bird belonging exclusively to the old world. The true quail does not occur In America at all. 111 .many parts of this country the American bird is known as partridge, but the American partridge is really the ruffed grouse, and the true partridge again is another old world bird aud lie thinks that the name given to It in many localities, “hdbwliite,” is as good as any. The name comes from the cry of the bird, which is something like “bobwhite, bobwhite, hohwliite.”