Brown: a plumage color mutation in Chinese painted quail (Excalfactoria chinensis).

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"Brown" is the second plumage color mutation reported in Chinese painted quail (Excalfactoria chinensis). The brown plumage lacks the wild-type black pigmentation that is a representative component of the wild-type plumage; otherwise, the plumage pattern is the same as that of the wild type. The dorsal surface of the female is brown with gray tinge, while that of the male is dark brown with a bluish-gray tinge....

Topics

• Animals
• Feathers
• Female
• Heterozygote
• Homozygote
• Male
• Mutation
• Pigmentation
• Quail