Key Identification Features
- Good scaled quail habitat features low-growing grasses mixed with forbs and shrubs, with total ground cover between 10 and 50%, and trees and shrubs shorter than 6.
- Most individuals have olive brown underparts, but there is a distinct colour morph with rufous underparts; in both morphs, the underparts are marked with bold white spots.
- A crest on the nape creates a distinctly long front-to-back profile.
- A distinctive unusual trait of this species is its long, sickle-shaped claws, which it uses for digging.
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