Title Die Gartenlaube, 1869
Publisher Ernst Keil's Nachfolger
Year of publication 1869
Place of publication Leipzig
Bild aus Seite 333 in "Die Gartenlaube". Image from page 333 of journal Die Gartenlaube, 1869.
Deutsch: Bildunterschrift: „Schopfwachteln.“
English: caption: "Schopfwachteln."
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Die_Gartenlaube_(1869)_b_333.jpg

The California valley quail or California quail or valley quail (Callipepla californica) is a small ground-dwelling bird in the New World quail family. These quails have a curving crest or plume, made of six feathers, that droops forward: black in males and brown in females; the flanks are brown with white streaks.