Green-legged partridge explained

The green-legged partridge (Tropicoperdix chloropus), also known as the scaly-breasted partridge or green-legged hill-partridge, is a bird species in the family Phasianidae. It is found in forest in Indochina, ranging slightly into southernmost China (Yunnan). The Vietnam partridge is now usually considered a subspecies.

Further reading

• Chen . D. . Liu . Y . Davison . G.W.H. . Dong . L. . Chang . J. . Gao . S. . Li . S.-H. . Zhang . Z. . 2015 . Revival of the genus Tropicoperdix Blyth 1859 (Phasianidae, Aves) using multilocus sequence data . Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . 175 . 2 . 429–438 . 10.1111/zoj.12273 . free .
• Chen . D. . Braun . E.L. . Forthman . M. . Kimball . R.T. . Zhang . Z. . 2018 . A simple strategy for recovering ultraconserved elements, exons, and introns from low coverage shotgun sequencing of museum specimens: placement of the partridge genus Tropicoperdix within the Galliformes . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . 129 . 304–314 . 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.09.005 . 30201427 . free .