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The Phasianidae is a family of birds which consists of the pheasants and partridges, and including the junglefowl (including chicken), Old World quail, francolins, monals and peafowl. The family is a large one, containing 38 genera and around 138 species. The family is occasionally broken up into two subfamilies, the Phasianinae, which holds 49 species of pheasant, and the Perdicinae, which holds the 106 remaining species. Sometimes additional families and birds are treated as being in this family as well; the American Ornithologists' Union includes Tetraonidae (the grouse), Numididae (guineafowls), and Meleagrididae (turkeys) in Phasianidae as subfamilies. From Wikipedia under the
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600px x 800px | 335.00kB [source page] Snow Partridge - photograph Rajiv Lather Snow Partridge (Lerwa lerwa ) is a rare resident in the higher reaches of the Himalayan region in India. Size: 37 cm. From Yahoo Image Search: "phasianidae" |


