Subspecies
There are eight recognized subspecies:
- P. p. amoricana (Hartert, 1917) - locally in France
- P. p. canescens (Burturlin, 1906) - Southern Grey Partridge - Turkey east to the South Caucasus and northwest Iran
- P. p. hispaniensis (Reichenow, 1892) - Iberian Partridge - central Pyrenees to northeast Portugal
- P. p. italica (Hartert, 1917) - Italian Grey Partridge
- P. p. lucida (Altum, 1894) - Eastern Grey Partridge - Finland east to Ural Mountains and south to Black Sea and northern Caucasus
- P. p. perdix (Linnaeus, 1758) - nominate - British Isles and southern Scandinavia to Italy and the Balkans
- P. p. robusta (Homeyer and Tancré, 1883) - Southeastern Grey Partridge - Ural Mountains to southwestern Siberia and northwestern China
- P. p. sphagnetorum (Altum, 1894) - moors of northern Holland and northwest Germany
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