Harlequin Quail

SCI Name:  Coturnix delegorguei
Protonym:  Coturnix delegorguei Voy.Afr.Austr. 2 p.615
Taxonomy:  Galliformes / Phasianidae / Coturnix
Taxonomy Code:  harqua1
Type Locality:  Oury, upper Limpopo River, Transvaal.
Author:  Delegorgue
Publish Year:  1847
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

COTURNIX
(Phasianidae; Ϯ Common Quail C. coturnix) L. coturnix, coturnicis  quail; "40^e  GENRE. { Caille. Le bec court, en cône-recourbé: les narines ovales, demi-fermées: la langue entière, pointue: point d'espace nud derrière les yeux: les pieds sans éperons.   Coturnix.  Rostrum breve, conico-incurvum: nares ovatæ, semi-tectæ: lingua integra, acuta: area pone oculos nulla: pedes mutici." (Bonnaterre 1791); "Coturnix Bonnaterre, Tabl. Encyc. Méth., Orn., pt. 1, 1791, p. lxxxvii. Type, by tautonymy, "Caille" = Tetrao coturnix Linné." (Peters, 1934, II, p. 91). The Common Quail was formerly an abundant migrant summer visitor to Europe, but its numbers are now declining (see quelea and quiscula).
Var. Coturuix.
Synon. Compsortyx, Maroturnia, Ortygion, Palaeoperdix, Palaeortyx, Perdortyx, Pseudortigion, Schaubortyx, Zecoturnix.

coturnix
L. coturnix, coturnicis  quail; “91. TETRAO.  ...  Coturnix.  13. T. pedibus nudis, corpore griseo-maculato, superciliis albis, rectricibus margine lunulaque ferruginea. Fn. svec. 173.  Coturnix. Gesn. av. 353. Aldr. orn. l. 13. c. 22. Jonst. av. 69. t. 28. Raj. av. 58. Alb. av. I. p. 28. t. 30.  Tetrao israelitarum. Hasselq. it. 279. n. 44.  Habitat in Europa, Asia, Africa.  Pennæ corporis ferrugineæ linea longitudinali albida.  Chinenses vivum portanda manus calefaciunt. Osb. itin. 190." (Linnaeus 1758) (Coturnix).

delegorguei
Louis-Adulphe-Joseph Delegorgue (1814-1849) French traveller, hunter, naturalist in tropical Africa 1839-1849 (Columba, Coturnix).

SUBSPECIES

Harlequin Quail (delegorguei)
SCI Name: Coturnix delegorguei delegorguei
delegorguei
Louis-Adulphe-Joseph Delegorgue (1814-1849) French traveller, hunter, naturalist in tropical Africa 1839-1849 (Columba, Coturnix).

Harlequin Quail (histrionica)
SCI Name: Coturnix delegorguei histrionica
histrionica
L. histrionicus  theatrical, like a harlequin  < histrio, histrionis  harlequin, actor.

Harlequin Quail (arabica)
SCI Name: Coturnix delegorguei arabica
arabica / arabicus
L. Arabicus  Arabian  < Arabia  Arabia  < Gr. Aραβια Arabia  Arabia  < Aραψ Araps  Arab, Aραβες Arabes  Arabs.