page_title: Snowcock
section_title: Species
hierarchical_section_title: Snowcock / Species
caption_attribution_description: Latina: Tetraogallus caspiusРусский: Каспийские улары, Мензбир М.А. Охотничьи и промысловыя птицы Европейской России и Кавказа. 2 тома и атлас. М., типо-литография Т-ва И. Н. Кушнерев и Ко., 1900-1902.
context_page_description: The snowcocks are a group of bird species in the genus Tetraogallus of the pheasant family, Phasianidae. They are ground-nesting birds that breed in the mountain ranges of southern Eurasia from the Caucasus to the Himalayas and western China. Some of the species have been introduced into the United States. Snowcocks feed mainly on plant material.
context_section_description: The five species within the genus along with subspecies are:
  Caucasian snowcock, Tetraogallus caucasicus  (Pallas, 1811)
  Caspian snowcock, Tetraogallus caspius (Gmelin, 1784)
  T. c. caspius (Gmelin, 1784)
  T. c. semenowtianschanskii Zarudny, 1908
  Tibetan snowcock, Tetraogallus tibetanus Gould, 1854
  T. t. tibetanus Gould, 1854
  T. t. tschimenensis Sushkin, 1926
  T. t. centralis Sushkin, 1926
  T. t. przewalskii Bianchi, 1907
  T. t. henrici Oustalet, 1891
  T. t. aquilonifer R. & A. Meinertzhagen, 1926
  Altai snowcock, Tetraogallus altaicus (Gebler, 1836)
  T. a. altaicus (Gebler, 1836)
  T. a. orientalis Sushkin, 1926
  Himalayan snowcock, Tetraogallus himalayensis Gray, 1843
  T. h. himalayensis Gray, 1843
  T. h. grombczewskii Bianchi, 1898
  T. h. koslowi Bianchi, 1898
caption: Tetraogallus caspius
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