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Rusty-necklaced partridge
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
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.

Taxonomy

Przevalski's partridge has two recognized subspecies:

• A. m. lanzhouensis (Liu N., Huang Z., & Wen L., 2004) - Lanzhou Basin, and central Gansu (China)
• A. m. magna (Przevalski, 1876) - north to northeastern Qinghai (China)

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

References

1. BirdLife International (2016). "Alectoris magna". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22678703A92784709. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22678703A92784709.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
2. "IOC World Bird List 13.1". IOC World Bird List Datasets. doi:10.14344/ioc.ml.13.1. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
3. 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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