The chestnut-headed partridge (''Arborophila cambodiana'') is a bird species in the family

Phasianidae Phasianidae is a family (biology), family of heavy, ground-living birds, which includes pheasants, grouse, partridges, junglefowl, chickens, Turkey bird, turkeys, Old World quail, and peafowl. The family includes many of the most popular Game (hu ...

. It is found in

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Cambodia Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. It is bordered by Thailand to the northwest, Laos to the north, and Vietnam to the east, and has a coastline ...

, specifically the

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. The Siamese partridge, subspecies ''A. c. diversa'', has sometimes been considered as a separate species..

Taxonomy

The chestnut-headed partridge was

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in 1928 by the French ornithologists

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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 ''Arborophila'' is a bird genus in the family Phasianidae. The genus has the second most members within the Galliformes after '' Pternistis'', although ''Arborophila'' species vary very little in bodily proportions with different species varying ...

'' and coined the

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''Arborophila cambodiana''. Three

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are recognised: * ''A. c. diversa''

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, 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. Also availabl
from the BHL

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