Egg identification

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    Photographed on Nature Conservancy property on the east side of Skaha Lake, Penticton, June 6, 2004.

    This egg was in a hole underneath a slab of rock (which someone else mentioned to me was perfect rattlesnake habitat...). Any suggestions? I suspect quail, but I don't have Roger Tory Peterson's egg identification guide readily available to me.

    The egg measured roughly five cm in length.
     

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