Abstract: Karyotype analysis was carried out on quails using the peripheral lymphocyte culture techniques，and G-banding patterns were obtained with trypsin and Giemsa. The results showed that the quail had a diploid number of 78，with 10 pairs of macrochromosomes including the sex-chromosomes and 29 pairs of microchromosomes. NO.1 chromosome was submetacentric，NO.2 and Z chromosome were metacentric，and the others were telocentric，which was slightly different from the results of others. Additionally，analysis of G-banding patterns for macrochromosomes indicated that they were divided into 27 zones and 134 bands.