Barred Buttonquail

The barred buttonquail or common bustard-quail (Turnix suscitator) is a buttonquail, one of a small family of birds which resemble, but are not closely related to, the true quails. This species is resident from India across tropical Asia to south China, Indonesia and the Philippines. == Taxonomy == The barred buttonquail was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. He placed it with the grouse like birds in the genus Tetrao and coined the binomial name Tetrao suscitator. Gmelin cited the English ornithologist Francis Willughby who in 1678 had described and illustrated the "Indian Quail of Brontius" from the Island of Java. The barred buttonquail is now placed in the genus Turnix that was introduced in 1791 by French naturalist in Pierre Bonnaterre. The genus name is an abbreviation of the genus Coturnix. The specific epithet suscitator is Latin and means "awakening". Sixteen subspecies are recognised. T. s. plumbipes (Hodgson, 1837) – Nepal to northeast India and north Myanmar T. s. bengalensis Blyth, 1852 – central, southwest Bengal (northeast India) T. s. taigoor (Sykes, 1832) – India (except above) T. s. leggei Baker, ECS, 1920…