quail

Animal · mentioned in 4 journal entries

Planning Westward Fort Clatsop Return Post-expedition NPS L&C NHT trail data © National Park Service
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Also discussed in Coues 1893 (4-vol edition):
1 mention via 1 variant: common quail (1)
Jefferson’s Memoir of Lewis Coues’s Supplement Coues’s Memoir of Clark
Matching wildlife/plant records:
Mountain Quail (Oreortyx pictus)
Lewis: March 3, 1806
Meriwether Lewis · Mar 3, 1806 · Fort Clatsop, winter quarters
"comparison to small brown pheasant plumage"
Clark: April 6, 1806
William Clark · Apr 6, 1806 · Portaging Cascades of the Columbia upstream
"compared to newly described bird" — transcribed as Quail
Lewis: April 7, 1806
Meriwether Lewis · Apr 7, 1806 · Portaging Cascades of the Columbia upstream
"new bird described resembled quail"
Missouri River through Kansas-Missouri area — Patrick Gass: September 18, 1806
Patrick Gass · Sep 18, 1806 · Missouri River through Kansas-Missouri area
"index reference"

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