The common buttonquail resembles the common quail, it has streaked sandy brown upperparts, buff underparts with black flank markings, and a plain face. In flight, a whitish wingbar contrasts with the grey wing.
By the meteorological calendar, winter always starts on 1 December. The seasons are defined as Spring (March, April, May), Summer (June, July, August), Autumn (September, October, November) and Winter (December, January, February).
The meteorological seasons in the Southern Hemisphere are also opposite to those in the Northern Hemisphere: 1  Fall (autumn) - starts March 1 and ends May 31; 2  Winter - starts June 1 and ends August 31; 3  Spring - starts September 1 and ends November 30; and, 4  Summer - starts December 1 and ends February 28 (February 29 in a Leap Year).