Chestnut-headed partridge

The chestnut-headed partridge 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 A. c. chandamonyi Eames, JC & Steinheimer & Bansok, 2002 – southwest CambodiaA. c. cambodiana Delacour & Jabouille, 1928 – southeast Cambodia
The subspecies A. c. diversa has sometimes been considered as a separate species, the Siamese partridge.