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Coturnix Quail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | Although European coturnix migrating south in the fall across the Mediterranean Sea were, in their exhausted condition, easily caught or trapped the available Egyptian and Biblical records do not indicate that these birds were ever bred in captivity. |
 | | The domesticated subspecies, Coturnix coturnix japonica, is called Japanese quail but is also known by other names: Common quail, Eastern quail, Asiatic quail, Stubble quail, Pharaoh's quail, Red-throat quail, Japanese gray quail, Japanese migratory quail, King quail, and Japanese King quail. |
 | | Young coturnix are yellowish in appearance with stripes of brown and somewhat resemble turkey poults except for size. |
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