Editing Grey partridge (section)

==Taxonomy==
The grey partridge [[Species description|formally described]] in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist [[Carl Linnaeus]] in the [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|tenth edition]] of his ''[[Systema Naturae]]'' under the [[binomial nomenclature|binomial name]] ''Tetrao perdix''. Linnaeus specified the [[type locality (biology)|type locality]] as Europe but this has been restricted to Sweden. <ref>{{cite book | last=Linnaeus | first=Carl | author-link=Carl Linnaeus | year=1758 | title= Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis | volume=1 | edition=10th | page=160 | publisher=Laurentii Salvii | location=Holmiae (Stockholm) | language=Latin | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/727067 }}</ref><ref>{{ cite book | editor-last=Peters | editor-first=James Lee | editor-link=James L. Peters | year=1934 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=2 | publisher=Harvard University Press | location=Cambridge, Massachusetts  | page=88 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14482901 }}</ref> The word ''perdix'' is [[Latin]] meaning "partridge", from [[Ancient Greek]] περδιξ/''perdix'' meaning "partridge".<ref>{{ cite web | last=Jobling | first=James A. | title=perdix | work=The Key to Scientific Names | url=https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/key-to-scientific-names/search?q=perdix | publisher=Cornell Lab of Ornithology | access-date=18 February 2025 }}</ref> The grey partridge together with the [[Daurian partridge]] and the [[Tibetan partridge]] are now placed in the genus ''[[Perdix]]'' that was introduced in 1760 by the French zoologist [[Mathurin Jacques Brisson]].<ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela C. Rasmussen | date=August 2024 | title=Pheasants, partridges, francolins | work=IOC World Bird List Version 14.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/new/bow/pheasants/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=19 February 2025}}</ref>

===Subspecies===
Eight [[subspecies]] are recognised by the IOC World Bird List,<ref name=ioc/> though the differences are clinal, and not all are accepted by other authorities; the HBW/BirdLife International list only accepts six subspecies;<ref name="HBW">{{cite web | title=HBW / BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v9 | url=https://datazone.birdlife.org/userfiles/file/Species/Taxonomy/Handbook%20of%20the%20Birds%20of%20the%20World%20and%20BirdLife%20International%20Digital%20Checklist%20of%20the%20Birds%20of%20the%20World_Version_9.pdf | access-date=2024-11-30}}</ref> the differences noted below:
* ''P. p. perdix'' <small>([[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|1758]])</small>. Nominate, found in the [[British Isles]] and southern [[Scandinavia]] to [[Italy]] and the [[Balkans]].
* ''P. p. armoricana'' <small>([[Ernst Hartert|Hartert]], 1917)</small>. Southwestern [[France]].
* ''P. p. sphagnetorum'' <small>([[Bernard Altum|Altum]], 1894)</small>. On peaty soils in the northern part of the [[Netherlands]] and northwest [[Germany]]. Barely distinct from ''P. p. perdix'' and included in it by HBW/BLI.<ref name=ioc/><ref name="HBW"/><ref>{{cite journal | last=Bot | first=Sander | last2=Jansen | first2=Justin J F J | title=Is Peat Partridge a valid subspecies of Grey Partridge? | journal=Dutch Birding | volume=35 | issue=3 | date=2013-01-01 | issn=0167-2878 | pages=155–168 | url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328315515_Is_Peat_Partridge_a_valid_subspecies_of_Grey_Partridge | access-date=2024-11-30}}</ref>
* ''P. p. hispaniensis'' <small>([[Anton Reichenow|Reichenow]], 1892)</small>. Central [[Pyrenees]] to northeast [[Portugal]]
* ''P. p. italica'' <small>(Hartert, 1917)</small>. Included in ''P. p. perdix'' by HBW/BLI.<ref name="HBW"/> Formerly extinct in the wild, now reintroduced.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Welcome back Perdix perdix italica!|url=https://www.isprambiente.gov.it/en/news/welcome-back-perdix-perdix-italica|access-date=2021-12-13|website=Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale|language=en}}</ref>
* ''P. p. lucida'' <small>([[Bernard Altum|Altum]], 1894)</small>. [[Finland]] east to the [[Ural Mountains]] and south to [[Black Sea]] and northern [[Caucasus]].
* ''P. p. canescens'' <small>([[Sergei Aleksandrovich Buturlin|Burturlin]], 1906)</small>. [[Turkey]] east to the [[South Caucasus]] and northwest [[Iran]].
* ''P. p. robusta'' <small>([[Eugen Ferdinand von Homeyer|Homeyer]] and [[Rudolf Tancré|Tancré]], 1883)</small>. The [[Ural Mountains]] to southwestern [[Siberia]] and northwestern [[China]]. The largest subspecies.<ref name="BWP"/>