<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Any of several true quails of the genus <em>Colinus</em>, family Odontophoridae, including <em>C. virginianus</em> (northern bobwhite), distributed through much of the Americas, having mottled reddish-brown, black, and white plumage.</li><li>The bobwhite gets its name from its whistling call, which sweeps upward in pitch as an easily discernible “bob-white.”</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>