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Quail
Quail are really two types of bird species within the galliform family: the odontophorine quails of the Americas, and a group comprising the smallest members of a Eurasian subfamily that exists in the rest of the world. These birds are all migratory. The Japanese quail, a plump 20-cm bird, is widely used in laboratory studies. The Book of Exodus in the Bible says that quail were food for the Israelites in the wilderness. The handsome blue-breasted quail of Asia and Australia is the painted or button Quail sold in cages in pet shops. The odontophorine quails, about 30 species, are different enough from Eurasian quails to have been placed by some authorities in their own family. They are bigger fatter birds, with stouter bills that have serrations on the cutting edge of the mandible. They do not migrate but live everywhare from the deserts to semitropical forests. The few species that reach North America are mostly birds of open country, whereas the tropical species are primarily forest birds. The best-known species in the United States is a popular game bird called the "Bob White" of the East and Mid Atlantic states. It has now spread to western North America, the West Indies, and New Zealand. It is 21 to 26 cm (8.5 to 10.5 in) long, with a slight crest.
Males are reddish brown above and white, barred with black, on the belly. The throat and a line above the eye are white; a broad black line extends from the eye backward and around the throat. This white area is replaced by buff in the otherwise similar females. In subspecies from the southwestern United States and parts of Mexico, the face, throat, and variable amounts of the rest of the underparts are black.
Bobwhites are monogamous and gather into coveys of over 100 birds-dispersing during the day for feeding and reassembling at night or in adverse weather. In winter they huddling in a circle for warmth with their heads turned outward. If frightened, bobwhites (like most quail) prefer to run from danger; when flushed, they fly rapidly with a loud whirring sound, but quickly drop to earth.
Gambel's quail, a prized trophy bird inhabits the deserts of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.
Scientific classification:
Quails belong to the family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes. American quails make up the subfamily Odontophorinae. Eurasian quails make up the subfamily Phasianinae. The common quail is classified as Coturnix coturnix, the Japanese quail as Coturnix coromandelica, and the blue-breasted quail as Coturnix chinensis. The northern bobwhite is classified as Colinus virginianus, the California quail as Callipepla californica, Gambel's quail as Callipepla gambelii, and the mountain quail as Oreortyx pictus..
