Common name for two distinct groups of BIRDS in the order GALLIFORMES: the New World or American quails of the family Odontophoridae and the Old World quails in the genus COTURNIX, family Phasianidae.
    

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Singapore: five separate illustrations of Asian game birds and a weighing device. Watercolours by J. Taylor, 1879.

An Andalucian hemipode (Turnix sylvatica). Chromolithograph by W. Greve after A. Thorburn, ca. 1885.

Two quails and a duck on the edge of a lake or river with wheat. Process print after Tosa Mitsusada.

The Israelites struck by plague while eating quails. Engraving by A. de Blois after G. Hoet.

Appendix secvnda ad Historiam Aethiopicam Iobi Lvdolfi, continens dissertationem de locvstis anno praeterito immensa copia in Germania visis, cum diatriba, qua sententia autoris nova de ... selavis, sive locustis, cibo Israëlitarum in deserto, defenditur, & augmentis contrariis viri docti respondetur. Qua occasione nonnulla S. Scripturae loca declarantur, & autores quidam notantur vel emendantur / [Hiob Ludolf].

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The Israelites struck by plague while eating quails. Engraving by A. de Blois after G. Hoet.

An Andalucian hemipode (Turnix sylvatica). Chromolithograph by W. Greve after A. Thorburn, ca. 1885.

Singapore: five separate illustrations of Asian game birds and a weighing device. Watercolours by J. Taylor, 1879.

Two quails and a duck on the edge of a lake or river with wheat. Process print after Tosa Mitsusada.