Blue-breasted Quail

The blue-breasted quail, also called the king quail, is the smallest member of the pheasant and quail family, 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).

It ranges from southern China through South and Southeast Asia to Oceania. The subspecies chinensis is listed for India and Sri Lanka east to Malaya, Indochina, southeastern China and Taiwan. Its voice is a piping whistle. Nationally Endangered (Sri Lanka National Red List 2012, listed as Coturnix chinensis, Blue Quail).