Chestnut-headed partridge

Chestnut-headed partridge
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Galliformes
Family:	Phasianidae
Genus:	Arborophila
Species:	A. cambodiana
Binomial name
Arborophila cambodiana Delacour & Jabouille, 1928

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. ^{[2] [3]}

Three subspecies are recognised: ^[4]

• 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. diversa has sometimes been considered as a separate species, the Siamese partridge. ^{[4] [5]}

References

1. BirdLife International (2016). "Arborophila cambodiana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016: e.T22679057A92801643. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22679057A92801643.en . Retrieved 11 November 2021.
2. Delacour, Jean Théodore; Jabouille, Pierre (1928). "Twenty one new forms of birds collected in Indo-China during the fourth expedition 1927-1928". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 48: 125-135 [128].
3. Peters, James Lee, ed. (1934). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 2. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 101.
4. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (February 2025). "Pheasants, partridges, francolins". IOC World Bird List Version 15.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
5. Eames, J.; Steinheimer, F.; Bansok, R. (2002). "A collection of birds from the Cardamom Mountains, Cambodia, including a new subspecies of Arborophila cambodiana". Forktail. 18: 67–86. Also available from the BHL.

External links

• BirdLife Species Factsheet.