[1] The rain quail was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae.

[4] The rain quail is now one of six species placed in the genus Coturnix that was introduced in 1764 by the French naturalist François Alexandre Pierre de Garsault.

[9] The call is a metallic pair of quit- quit nots, constantly repeated mornings and evenings, and in the breeding season also during the night.

Breeding takes place between March and October, but chiefly after the start of the southwesterly monsoon season in June.

[1] In Khmer culture, the rain quail is a symbolic figure often represented at the center of some yantra cloth, as an auspicious sign for the protection of a home.