The Yellow-legged Buttonquail is a ground-dwelling bird of open grasslands from India to East Asia. It eats both plant matter and small animals.
The female is larger than the male and has gray-brown plumage, a rufous collar, a buff face, a dark crown, and fine barring.
It forages among sandy ground and short rough grass for seeds, shoots, and insects.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.