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Hemipode

Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology

(hĕm´ĭpōd): see bustard quail.

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Bustard Quail - or button quail, any of the small ground-running Old World birds of the family Turnicidae. Also called a hemipode, it resembles a true quail in appearance and way of life but is more closely re...