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    The brown quail (Synoicus ypsilophorus), also known as the swamp quail, silver quail and Tasmanian quail, is an Australasian true quail of the family...
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    Rain quail, Coturnix coromandelica Harlequin quail, Coturnix delegorguei †Canary Islands quail, Coturnix gomerae (fossil) Genus Synoicus Brown quail, Synoicus...
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    California quail (Callipepla californica), also known as the California valley quail or Valley quail, is a small ground-dwelling bird in the New World quail family...
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    The king quail (Synoicus chinensis), also known as the blue-breasted quail, Asian blue quail, Chinese painted quail, or Chung-Chi, is a species of Old...
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    The common quail (Coturnix coturnix), or European quail, is a small ground-nesting game bird in the pheasant family Phasianidae. It is mainly migratory...
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    for a group of quail is flock, bevy or covey. Old World quail may refer to the following species of Coturnicini: Genus Synoicus Brown quail, Synoicus ypsilophorus...
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    The Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica), also known as the coturnix quail, is a species of Old World quail found in East Asia. First considered a subspecies...
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    stubble quail are thinner and less obvious on the brown quail. The brown quail does not have white streaks underneath its body like the stubble quail, but...
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    The Snow Mountain quail (Synoicus monorthonyx), is a roughly 28-cm-long (11 in), dark brown quail of alpine grasslands. It was formerly considered the...
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    The mountain quail (Oreortyx pictus) is a small ground-dwelling bird in the New World quail family. This species is the only one in the genus Oreortyx...
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  • (Northern) Bobwhite quail Gambel's quail Mearn's quail Mountain quail Scaled quail California (Valley) quail Manipur Bush quail Jungle Bush quail Both Button...
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    was described from a living specimen. The brown quail (S. ypsilophora), king quail (S. chinensis) and blue quail (S. adansonii), were formerly classified...
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    koreke-brown quail (Synoicus ypsilophora) hybrids. However, a genetic study showed instead that the quail on Tiritiri Matangi are brown quail. Sequences...
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    and/or brown. Chicks of both sexes in all the species are cryptically colored. They vary between yellow and tawny, usually with patches of darker brown or...
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    smaller quail; they're ground-dwelling birds that feature variable plumage colouration across species, with most tending to grey and brown. Partridges...
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    Synoicus that, alongside the king quail (S. chinensis) also includes the Snow Mountains quail (S. monorthonyx) and brown quail (S. ypsilophorus). The IOC World...
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    partridge (A. heyi) Synoicus Brown quail (S. ypsilophorus) Snow Mountain quail (S. monorthonyx) Blue quail (S. adansonii) King quail (S. chinensis) Margaroperdix...
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    the late 1980s. Other introduced gamebirds are bobwhite quail, brown quail, California quail, guinea fowl, blue peafowl, wild turkey, and pheasant. Major...
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    total length. She is much less showy than the male, with a duller mottled brown plumage similar to that of the female common pheasant, but is darker and...
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    spotted with brown. On laying the second-last or last egg, the female starts 21 to 28 days of incubation. Chicks hatch in dense, yellow-brown down and leave...
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    throat is scaled green, the back is dark green, the wings are blue and brown, and the rump is yellow. The "cape" can be raised in display. This species...
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    lacks the train, has a white face, iridescent green lower neck and dull brown plumage. The Indian peafowl lives mainly on the ground in open forest or...
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    bobwhite (Colinus virginianus), also known as the Virginia quail or (in its home range) bobwhite quail, is a ground-dwelling bird native to Canada, the United...
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    05 kg (7 lb 15 oz to 11 lb 2 oz). The body feathers are dark grey to dark brown, while the breast feathers are dark metallic green. The belly and undertail...
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    White eared pheasant (C. crossoptilon) Tibetan eared pheasant (C. harmani) Brown eared pheasant (C. mantchuricum) Blue eared pheasant (C. auritum) Subfamily...
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    Okapi noticed that the native Congolese headdresses contained long reddish-brown feathers that he could not identify with any previously known species of...
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    order of heavy-bodied ground-feeding birds that includes turkeys, chickens, quail, and other landfowl. Gallinaceous birds, as they are called, are important...
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    levaillantoides Synoicus Brown quail, Synoicus ypsilophorus Snow Mountain quail, Synoicus monorthonyx King quail, Synoicus chinensis Blue quail, Synoicus adansonii...
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    Pheasants, Partidges and Grouse: A Guide to the Pheasants, Partridges, Quails, Grouse, Guineafowl, Payton Moore, Buttonquails and Sandgrouse of the World...
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    shorter tail, and has brownish-black colored plumage, with dark brown feathers fringed pale brown. The males of this subspecies have the darkest plumage, which...
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