This Snow-Partridge was discovered by the French missionary, Père Armand David (1826-1900), who sent specimens to Paris from his adventurous journey through northwest China and Tibet during 1868-1870. The partridges are depicted about lifesize.
D.G. Elliot, Monograph of the Phasianidae, 1872, I, p.22
R. Swinhoe, Proceedings of the Zoological Society, 1871, p.399
DISTRIBUTION: Eastern Tibet and Western China: central Kansu, eastern Tsinghai, western and northern Szechwan