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Taxonomic status of the bobwhite quail in New Zealand

  • Publication Type

    Journal Article

  • Publication Year

    1957

  • Author(s)

    K.E. Westerskov

  • Journal Name

    Notornis

  • Volume, Issue

    7, 4

  • Pagination

    95-98

  • Article Type

    Paper

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Taxonomic status of the bobwhite quail in New Zealand

Notornis, 7 (4), 95-98

K.E. Westerskov (1957)

Article Type: Paper

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The bobwhite quail introduced to New Zealand now only persisting in scattered populations in the Wairoa-Waikaremoana area, belong to the western prairie form, the plains bobwhite, Colinus virginianus taylori Lincoln. The introduced birds came from Kansas and/or the old Indian Territory around 1900. This bird ought in future to be called bobwhite quail and not Virginian quail.