General
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Until recently the buttonquails (the bustard quails or hemipodes) have not been listed as occurring in Mongolia. The 2007 "binomial-style" official list of names bestows the name Гурван шивүүрт gurvaŋ shivüürt 'three-spined' on the locally occurring species, where 'spine' presumably refers to the bird's toes.
However, the family name in the same volume is given as Гурван шивнүүрийнхэн gurvaŋ shivnüüriŋkheŋ 'the three claw-boned' referring to the metacarpal or metatarsal bones of an animal. This suggests that the name should actually be Гурван шивнүүрт gurvaŋ shivnüürt 'three-clawed'. Other lists (such as (15)) also use Гурван шивнүүрт gurvaŋ shivnüürt. Although this is a strange choice of terminology to indicate 'three-toed' -- other three-toed birds are named either Гурванхуруут gurvaŋ huruut or Гурван хумст gurvaŋ khumst, both meaning 'three-toed' -- we will adopt the шивнүүрт shivnüürt version as correct.
Inner Mongolian names for the buttonquails are confusing in a different way. One name, Усан бүднэ usaŋ büden 'water quail', is based on the Chinese 水鹌鹑 'water quail'. The other name uses a name more usually associated with the swallows (Hirundididae), хараацай kharaatsai.
Species names
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Turnix tanki |
Yellow-legged Buttonquail Yellow-legged Button-quail Yellow-legged Bustard Quail Burmese button quail Пятнистая трёхперстка |
Гурван шивнүүрт ᠭᠣᠷᠪᠠᠨ ᠰᠢᠪᠡᠨᠣᠷᠲᠣ gurvaŋ shivnüürt 'three-clawed' |
Хөл шар хараацай ᠬᠦᠯ ᠰᠢᠷᠠ ᠬᠠᠷᠢᠶᠠᠴᠠᠢ khöl shar kharaatsai 'yellow-leg swallow' (31, 32) |
Гурван шивүүрт ᠭᠣᠷᠪᠠᠨ ᠰᠢᠪᠡᠭᠦᠷᠲᠣ gurvaŋ shivüürt 'three-spined' (very likely an error) IM also: Усан бүднэ ᠣᠰᠣᠨ ᠪᠦᠳᠦᠨᠠ usaŋ büden 'water quail' (alt in 31) |
黄脚三趾鹑 (黃腳三趾鶉 ) 'yellow-legged three-toed quail' Taiwan: (黄脚三趾鹑) 黃腳三趾鶉 'yellow-legged three-toed quail' |
チョウセンミフウズラ (朝鮮三斑鶉) chōsen mi-fu uzura 'Korean three-striped quail' |
세가락메추라기 se-garang-me-churagi 'three-toed mountain-quail' |
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