covey

pieni metsäkanaparvi, pieni peltopyyparvi

ryhmä A group of 8-12 (or more) quail. See gaggle, host, flock.
A brood of partridges, grouse, etc.
A party or group (of persons or things).
1906, O. Henry, s:The Love-Philtre of Ikey Schoenstein|The Love-Philtre of Ikey Schoenstein

The store is on a corner about which coveys of ragged-plumed, hilarious children play and become candidates for the cough drops and soothing syrups that wait for them inside.

A covey of grey soldiers clanked down the platform at the double with their equipment and embarked, but in absolute silence, which seemed to them very singular.

Tortoises covey a whole year before they hatch.

There is a duck called the raft duck, because it is so numerous, coveying together in "whole rafts."

'Pooh!' said he, 'you are as easily wounded as an unfledged dove — don't mind what an old covey like me says — I understand it all.'

There vas an old covey as lived in Wapping, at the time I'm telling you of, who vas connected vith us by ties of common interest.

I don't know what would become of these here young chaps, if it wasn't for such careful old coveys as we are—