Blue-breasted Quail

The blue-breasted quail, also called the king quail, is the smallest member of the pheasant and quail family and the smallest and lightest member of the order Galliformes, 12 to 15 cm long and 20 to 57 g. Males have a dark brown back and wings, dark blue-grey flanks and neck, dark red-brown underparts, and a black chin below a white band on the upper throat. Females are plain rufous-brown with a paler belly (Wikipedia, general species account). (Wikipedia, general species account).

They range in the wild from southern China, South and Southeast Asia to Oceania, south to southeastern Australia. The nest is on the ground, lined with dry grass. Clutch size varies from 4–7 (rarely 9) eggs. It ranges from southern China through South and Southeast Asia to Oceania, and its voice is a piping whistle. It is quite common in aviculture (Wikipedia, general species account). The king quail (Synoicus chinensis), also known as the Asian blue quail, blue-breasted quail, Chinese painted quail, button quail, or Chung-Chi, is a very small, diminutive galliform of the tribe Coturnicini in the subfamily Phasianinae. (Wikipedia, general species account).