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Definition of Coturnix coturnix
1. Noun. The typical Old World quail.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coturnix Coturnix
Literary usage of Coturnix coturnix
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Hand-book to the Birds of Great Britain by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1897)
"Coturnix coturnix. Tetrao coturnix, Linn. Syst. Nat. ip 278 (1766). ...
Coturnix coturnix, Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 231 (1893); id. in Allen's Nat ..."
2. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum by Richard Bowdler Sharpe, British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology (1893)
"335 [(Aprils]. p. 85 (1844) ; id. Icon, tried, in Brit. Mu», nos. 130, 131.
Coturnix coturnix, Licht. Numeric!. Av. p. 84 (18-54) ; Sharpe, ed. ..."
3. Popular Science Monthly (1901)
"The Old World migratory quail (Coturnix coturnix) is one of the comparatively
few migrants among the so-called game birds. During the migrations they wander ..."
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