Mearns quail
(also Mearns' quail)
noun
A Montezuma quail of the subspecies Cyrtonyx montezumae mearnsi, of the south-western United States and northern Mexico.
- This form is now sometimes included in the nominate subspecies C. montezumae montezumae..
Origin
Early 20th century; earliest use found in Condor.
- unreconstructed
- unrecordable
- unrecorded
- unrecording
- unrecounted
- unrecoverable
- unrecoverably
- unrecovered
- unrecruitable
- unrecruited
- unrectifiable
- unrectified
- unrecuperable
- unrecyclable
- unred
- Frenched
- French English
- French Equatorial Africa
- Frencher
- Frenchery
- French fact
- French fake
- French flageolet
- French 'flu
- French flyers