Quail is an ancient bird, which is widely distributed and has many varieties. Its meat and eggs are nutritious, delicious and have a long history of relationship with human beings. As early as 5,000 years ago, there were images of quails on Egyptian murals. Quails are also recorded on the pyramids. China is one of the main producing areas of wild quail and one of the earliest countries to raise wild quail.
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Bird. Body length is about 16 cm. It is shaped like a chicken, with a small head and a protruding tail. The mouth is short and dark brown. The iris is chestnut. The top of the head is black and maroon, with white stripes in the center and longitudinal stripes of the same color on both sides, from the base of the white mouth to the neck above the eyes; The forehead, chin and throat are light brick red.
The upper back is chestnut yellow, with scattered black horizontal spots and blue-gray feather edges, decorated with brown-white feather patterns; The shoulders, lower back and tail are all black, but they are densely covered with millet yellow slender transverse spots, with blue-gray feather edges except tail feathers; There is a row of brown and white feathers on both sides of the back, which is extremely beautiful.
The inside of the wings is covered with olive-brown feathers and flying feathers, mixed with fine points with brown-white and black edges; The primary flight feathers are mostly dark brown, decorated with rust-red horizontal spots. Chest chestnut yellow, mixed with almost white fine feather dry lines. Both sides of the lower body are maroon, with scattered black spots and large white feather lines, and the lower ribs are wide and prominent. Almost white below the abdomen. The feet are short and tan.