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Przevalski's partridge

Rusty-necklaced partridge
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Galliformes
Family: Phasianidae
Genus: Alectoris
Species:
A. magna
Binomial name
Alectoris magna
(Przewalski, 1876)

Przevalski's partridge (Alectoris magna) or the rusty-necklaced partridge, is a bird species in the family Phasianidae. It is found only in China.

The common name and Latin binomial commemorate the Russian explorer Nikolai Przhevalsky.[2]

References

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Alectoris magna". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  2. ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. p. 276.


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