page_title: Himalayan quail
section_title: Specimens and records
hierarchical_section_title: Himalayan quail / Specimens and records
caption_attribution_description: Painting of Mountain Quail Ophrysia superciliosa Hume and Marshall, Game birds of India, Burmah and Ceylon. 1880 Volume 2. עברית: איור של שליו ההימלאיה Ophrysia superciliosa
context_page_description: The Himalayan quail or mountain quail, is a medium-sized quail belonging to the pheasant family. It was last reported in 1876 and is feared extinct. This species was known from only 2 locations in the western Himalayas in Uttarakhand, north-west India. The last verifiable record was in 1876 near the hill station of Mussoorie.
context_section_description: Specimens are known from 
  Uttar Pradesh (now Uttarakhand), Mussoorie (1836, 2 specimens, type locality)
  5 km to the north-west of Mussoorie, between Badraj and Benog, 1,850 m. (November 1865, 1 specimen, 1 lost)
  Jharipani, 5 km to the south of Mussorie, c.1,650 m (November - June 1867/68 or 1869/70, 4 specimens total)
  Eastern slopes of Sher-ka-danda near Nainital, 2,100 m (December 1876, 1 specimen)
  By 1904 it was already considered as a rarity. 
  Sidney Dillon Ripley (1952) records a local bird name sano kalo titra ("small black/dusky partridge") from the Dailekh district of Nepal. The only bird from the general area that seems to fit such a description would be a male Himalayan quail.
caption: A pair of Himalayan quails from Hume and Marshall's Game-birds of India, Burmah and Ceylon. Hume noted that the depiction was incorrect and that the plumage of the male (left) should have been almost black.
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