bobwhite
- n a popular North American game bird; named for its call
- As proof, Rogallo exhibited the live and healthy chick of a bobwhite quail whose incubation had been monitored but undisturbed.
- The Florida he remembers meant the jolt of a single-barreled shotgun on his shoulder and a bobwhite dropping through the yellow winter sunlight at the edge of a slash-pine grove.
- It looks like an American bobwhite without its topknot and is about four times larger.