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quail dove
noun
- any of several tropical American pigeons of the genera Starnoenas or Geotrygon.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of quail dove1
Example Sentences
The ruddy quail dove, which eats fruits and seeds, had no population change.
Americans also hunt and eat quail, dove, grouse, woodcock, pheasant and many varieties of ducks.
Or, hunting deer, boar, bear, quail, dove, duck, goose, snipe, squirrel, possum or raccoon, the Southerner may have between his sights an entire sideboard of culinary delights.
He could put them in 69 beds in his big house, and he loved to send them out hunting deer, wild turkey, quail, dove, wild boar and even buffalo.
It is to the credit of the state that antelope are absolutely protected until 1920, and an unlimited close season has been accorded the quail, dove and swan.
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