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Chestnut-headed partridge

species of bird, the chestnut-headed partridge

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJun 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ1079886 ↗
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The chestnut-headed partridge (Arborophila cambodiana) is a bird species in the family Phasianidae. It is found in highland forest in Cambodia, specifically the Cardamom Mountains. The Siamese partridge, subspecies A. c. diversa, has sometimes been considered as a separate species.

Taxonomy

The chestnut-headed partridge was formally described in 1928 by the French ornithologists Jean Théodore Delacour and Pierre Jabouille based on a specimen collected near Bokor in southern Cambodia. They placed the new species with the partridges in the genus Arborophila and coined the binomial name Arborophila cambodiana.

Three subspecies are recognised:

A. c. diversa Riley, 1930 – southeast Thailand (Siamese partridge)

A. c. chandamonyi Eames, JC & Steinheimer & Bansok, 2002 – southwest Cambodia

A. c. cambodiana Delacour & Jabouille, 1928 – southeast Cambodia

The subspecies A. c.

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