A short-tailed quail-like bird found in the sparse grasslands of south-eastern Australia.
领鹑
Pedionomus torquatus, the only member of the family Pedionomidae
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The hunter handed the bird, a male plains wanderer, to the Melbourne Museum, which is preparing it for its ornithology collection.
This book reviews the 250 species of pheasants, partridges, grouse, quails, turkeys, guineafowls, buttonquails, sandgrouse, and plains-wanderers of the world.