Callipepla
Callipepla californica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Galliformes
Family:	Odontophoridae
Genus:	Callipepla Wagler, 1832
Type species
Callipepla strenua[1] Wagler, 1832
Species
Callipepla californica Callipepla douglasii Callipepla gambelii Callipepla squamata
Synonyms
LophortyxBonaparte, 1838[2]

Callipepla is a genus ofbirds in theNew World quail family, Odontophoridae.^[2] They are sometimes referred to ascrested quails.

GenusCallipepla –Wagler, 1832 – four species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
California quail Male Female	Callipepla californica (Shaw, 1798) Seven subspecies C. c. californica (Shaw, 1798) C. c. achrustera (Peters, 1923) C. c. brunnescens (Ridgway, 1884) C. c. canfieldae (Van Rossem, 1939) C. c. catalinensis (Grinnell, 1906) C. c. orecta (Oberholser, 1932) C. c. plumbea (Grinnell, 1926)	Southwestern United States to the Pacific Northwest, British Columbia, Canada	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Elegant quail Male	Callipepla douglasii (Vigors, 1829)	Sonora and southwestern Chihuahua to northern Jalisco, Mexico	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Gambel's quail Male Female	Callipepla gambelii (Gambel, 1843) Two subspecies C. g. fulvipectus (Nelson, 1899) C. g. gambelii (Gambel, 1843)	Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Texas, and Sonora; also New Mexico-border Chihuahua and the Colorado River region of Baja California.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Scaled quail[2] Male Female	Callipepla squamata (Vigors, 1830) Four subspecies C. s. squamataVigors, 1830 C. s. pallidaBrewster, 1881 C. s. hargraveiRea, 1973 C. s. castanogastrisBrewster, 1883	South-central Arizona, northern New Mexico, east-central Colorado, and southwestern Kansas south through western Oklahoma and western and central Texas into Mexico to northeastern Jalisco, Guanajuato, Queretaru, Hidalgo, and western Tamaulipas	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC

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