Harlequin quail

{{Short description|Species of bird}}

{{Hatnote|The Montezuma quail of Central America and the southwestern U.S. is sometimes called the harlequin quail.}}

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| name = Harlequin quail

| image = Harlequin Quail (Coturnix delegorguei) (6035291347), crop1.jpg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=Coturnix delegorguei |volume=2016 |page=e.T22678961A92796214 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22678961A92796214.en |access-date=15 November 2021}}

| genus = Coturnix

| species = delegorguei

| authority = Delegorgue, 1847

| synonyms = Coturnix fornasini Bianconi 1865 {{cite journal |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/242279#page/577/mode/1up |title=Specimina zoologica Mosambicana. Fasciculus XIV. |first=J. Josephi |last=Bianconi |author-link=Giovanni Giuseppe Bianconi |journal=Memorie della Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna |series=2 |volume=4 |page=519 at 521–522 |year=1864 |language=Latin}}{{cite journal |url=https://archive.org/details/biostor-88725 |title=Notes on the Genus Coturnix |first=William Robert |last=Ogilvie-Grant |author-link=William Robert Ogilvie-Grant |journal=Annals and Magazine of Natural History |series=6 |volume=10 |year=1892 |issue=56 |page=[https://archive.org/details/biostor-88725/page/n7 173] |doi=10.1080/00222939208677386}}

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The harlequin quail (Coturnix delegorguei) is a species of bird in the family Phasianidae. It occurs in sub-Saharan Africa and in the Arabian Peninsula.Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2018. [http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/ The Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2018] The species is named after the collector, Adulphe Delegorgue.