DCHP-3

mountain partridge

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a chubby, partridge-like fowl, Lagopus rupestris, of the Barren Grounds.

Quotations

1883
There is another kind . . . an Alpine species, inhabiting only the highest and barest ridges, and called the "mountain partridge."