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mountain partridge Nfld 
n. a chubby, partridge-like fowl, Lagopus rupestris, of the Barren Grounds.
See also: mountain grouse rock ptarmigan
- 1883 There is another kind . . . an Alpine species, inhabiting only the highest and barest ridges, and called the "mountain partridge."
- 1883 There is another kind . . . an Alpine species, inhabiting only the highest and barest ridges, and called the "mountain partridge."