Chukar Arm Warmers

For those of you who don't know (I was in this group until this year), a chukar is a game bird that looks like this:

And here is what Wikipedia has to say about chukars:
"The Chukar, Alectoris chukar, is a gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds.

"This partridge has its main (native) range in Asia and southeastern Europe, and is closely related and similar to its western equivalent, the Red-legged Partridge, Alectoris rufa. It has been introduced widely, and became established in the United States, Canada, New Zealand and Hawaii. In Great Britain, hybrids between this species and the also introduced Red-legged Partridge are common.

"This is a resident breeder in dry, open and often hilly country. It nests in a scantily lined ground scrape laying 8-20 eggs. Chukar takes a wide variety of seeds and some insect food.

"It is a rotund bird, with a light brown back, grey breast and buff belly. The face is white with a black gorget. It has rufous-streaked flanks and red legs. When disturbed, it prefers to run rather than fly, but if necessary it flies a short distance on rounded wings.

"It is very similar to Rock Partridge, Alectoris graeca, but is browner on the back and has a yellowish tinge to the foreneck. The sharply defined gorget distinguishes this species from Red-legged Partridge. The song is a noisy chuck-chuck-chukar-chukar.
"This species is declining in parts of its range due to habitat loss and over-hunting."

My mother-in-law is helping expand the range of chukars to Alaska.

Since Alaska is known to have the occasional cold snap, arm warmers were mentioned by said mother-in-law as a useful knitted item, for the express purpose of reading in bed.

In a daze one night, I somehow confused the two items and ended up with Chukar Arm Warmers.

They are made with Elizabeth Lavold Angora (60% angora, 20% wool, 20% polyamide). The angora is not quite as soft as I would have imagined.

Let's look again:

The chukars look a little bit like dinosaurs, but considering their phylogenetic ties, I don't think it's entirely inappropriate.