Quail
Quail — small game birds — often touch a favourable omen if alive, serious ill luck if dead, with ill feeling toward friends in shooting them. The dream may ask where modest, lively good fortune is feeding nearby, and whether you can let it flourish or risk, by some grasping move, killing the luck it represents.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for quail, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To see quails in your dream, is a very favorable omen, if they are alive; if dead, you will undergo serious ill luck.
To shoot quail, foretells that ill feelings will be shown by you to your best friends.
To eat them, signifies extravagance in your personal living.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of these birds is a good omen: if you imagine you see young quail feeding, it is a sign of thrift, particularly to farmers: to be successful in shooting them in the proper season, also foretells good luck and success in any undertaking.