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Pheasant

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Pheasants are birds of several genera within the subfamily Phasianinae, of the family Phasianidae in the order Galliformes. [1]

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Abrams Books

Abrams, formerly Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (HNA), is an American publisher of art and illustrated books, children's books, and stationery.

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Allan Octavian Hume

Allan Octavian Hume, CB ICS (6 June 1829 – 31 July 1912) was a member of the Imperial Civil Service (later the Indian Civil Service), a political reformer, ornithologist and botanist who worked in British India.

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Animal

Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia.

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Bird

Birds, also known as Aves, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Blood pheasant

The blood pheasant (Ithaginis cruentus) is the only species in genus Ithaginis of the pheasant family.

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Blue eared pheasant

The blue eared pheasant (Crossoptilon auritum) is a large, up to long, dark blue-grey pheasant with velvet black crown, red bare facial skin, yellow iris, long white ear coverts behind the eyes and crimson legs.

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Bornean peacock-pheasant

The Bornean peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron schleiermacheri) is a medium-sized pheasant.

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Bronze-tailed peacock-pheasant

The bronze-tailed peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron chalcurum) is also known as the Sumatran peacock-pheasant.

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Brown eared pheasant

The brown eared pheasant (Crossoptilon mantchuricum) is a large, 96–100 cm long, dark brown pheasant endemic to the mountain forests of northeastern China (Shanxi province and nearby provinces).

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Bulwer's pheasant

Bulwer's pheasant (Lophura bulweri) is also known as Bulwer's wattled pheasant, the wattled pheasant, or the white-tailed wattled pheasant.

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Charles Henry Tilson Marshall

Charles Henry Tilson Marshall (1841 – 20 January 1927) was a British Army Officer, serving in the Punjab, India.

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Cheer pheasant

The cheer pheasant, (Catreus wallichii), also known as Wallich's pheasant is a vulnerable species of the pheasant family, Phasianidae.

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Chordate

A chordate is an animal belonging to the phylum Chordata; chordates possess a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, an endostyle, and a post-anal tail, for at least some period of their life cycle.

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Chrysolophus

Chrysolophus is a genus of the pheasant family of birds.

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Color

Color (American English) or colour (Commonwealth English) is the characteristic of human visual perception described through color categories, with names such as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, or purple.

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Common pheasant

The common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) is a bird in the pheasant family (Phasianidae).

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Copper pheasant

The copper pheasant or Soemmerring's pheasant (Syrmaticus soemmerringii) is endemic to Japan.

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Crested argus

The crested argus (Rheinardia ocellata) are large and spectacular pheasant like-peafowl with dark-brown-spotted black and buff plumage, a heavy pink bill, brown irises and blue skin around the eyes.

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Crested fireback

The crested fireback (Lophura ignita) is a medium-sized, up to 70 cm long, forest pheasant with a peacock-like dark crest, bluish black plumage, reddish brown rump, black outer tail feathers, red iris and bare blue facial skin.

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Crestless fireback

The crestless fireback (Lophura erythrophthalma) is a species of bird in the family Phasianidae.

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Crossoptilon

Crossoptilon is a genus of pheasants in the Phasianidae family.

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Edwards's pheasant

Edwards's pheasant (Lophura edwardsi) is a bird of the pheasant family Phasianidae and is endemic to the rainforests of Vietnam.

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Elliot's pheasant

Elliot's pheasant (Syrmaticus ellioti), is a large pheasant native to south-eastern China.

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Family (biology)

In biological classification, family (familia, plural familiae) is one of the eight major taxonomic ranks; it is classified between order and genus.

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Frank Finn

Frank Finn FZS, MBOU (1868 – 1 October 1932) was an English ornithologist.

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Galliformes

Galliformes is an order of heavy-bodied ground-feeding birds that includes turkey, grouse, chicken, New World quail and Old World quail, ptarmigan, partridge, pheasant, junglefowl and the Cracidae.

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Gallopheasant

The gallopheasants (genus Lophura) are pheasants of the family Phasianidae.

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Georgia (country)

Georgia (tr) is a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia.

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Germain's peacock-pheasant

Germain's peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron germaini) is a pheasant that is endemic to Indochina.

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Golden pheasant

The golden pheasant or Chinese pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus) is a gamebird of the order Galliformes (gallinaceous birds) and the family Phasianidae (pheasants).

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Great argus

The great argus (Argusianus argus) is a species of pheasant from Southeast Asia.

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Green pheasant

The green pheasant (Phasianus versicolor), also known as Japanese green pheasant, is native to the Japanese archipelago, to which it is endemic.

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Grey peacock-pheasant

The grey peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron bicalcaratum), also known as Burmese peacock-pheasant, is a large Asian member of the order Galliformes.

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Hainan peacock-pheasant

The Hainan peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron katsumatae) is an endangered bird that belongs to the pheasant family Phasianidae.

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Hoogerwerf's pheasant

The Hoogerwerf's pheasant (Lophura hoogerwerfi) also known as Aceh pheasant or Sumatran pheasant is a medium-sized, up to long, bird of the family Phasianidae.

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Imperial pheasant

The imperial pheasant (Lophura × imperialis) is a dark blue, medium-sized, up to 75 cm long pheasant with bare red facial skin, blue crest, crimson legs and glossy plumage.

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Kalij pheasant

The kalij pheasant (Lophura leucomelanos) is a pheasant found in forests and thickets, especially in the Himalayan foothills, from Pakistan to western Thailand.

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Koklass pheasant

The koklass (Pucrasia macrolopha) is a species of Galliform, being closely related to progenitive grouse that lived during the Miocene.

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Lady Amherst's pheasant

The Lady Amherst's pheasant (Chrysolophus amherstiae) is a bird of the order Galliformes and the family Phasianidae.

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Malayan peacock-pheasant

The Malayan peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron malacense) also known as crested peacock-pheasant or Malaysian peacock-pheasant, is a medium-sized pheasant of the galliform family Phasianidae.

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Mikado pheasant

The Mikado pheasant (Syrmaticus mikado) is a gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds.

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Mountain peacock-pheasant

The mountain peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron inopinatum) also known as Rothschild's peacock-pheasant or mirror pheasant is a medium-sized, up to 65 cm long, blackish brown pheasant with small ocelli and long graduated tail feathers.

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Mrs. Hume's pheasant

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Order (biology)

In biological classification, the order (ordo) is.

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Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the main historical dictionary of the English language, published by the Oxford University Press.

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Palawan peacock-pheasant

The Palawan peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron napoleonis) is a medium-sized (up to 50 cm long) bird in the family Phasianidae.

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Peacock-pheasant

The peacock-pheasants are a bird genus, Polyplectron, of the family Phasianidae, consisting of eight species.

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Phasianidae

The Phasianidae are a family of heavy, groundliving birds which includes pheasants, partridges, junglefowl, chickens, Old World quail, and peafowl.

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Phasianinae

The Phasianinae (Horsfield, 1821) are a subfamily of the pheasant family (Phasianidae) of landfowl, the order Galliformes.

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Phasianus

The "typical" pheasant genus Phasianus in the family Phasianidae consists of at least one species.

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Reeves's pheasant

The Reeves's pheasant (Syrmaticus reevesii) is a large pheasant within the genus Syrmaticus.

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Rioni River

The Rioni or Rion River (რიონი Rioni, Φᾶσις Phasis) is the main river of western Georgia.

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Salvadori's pheasant

The Salvadori's pheasant (Lophura inornata) is a landfowl bird of genus Lophura, native to Indonesia.

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Sexual dimorphism

Sexual dimorphism is the condition where the two sexes of the same species exhibit different characteristics beyond the differences in their sexual organs.

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Siamese fireback

The Siamese fireback (Lophura diardi) also known as Diard's fireback is a fairly large, approximately 80 cm long, pheasant.

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Silver pheasant

The silver pheasant (Lophura nycthemera) is a species of pheasant found in forests, mainly in mountains, of mainland Southeast Asia, and eastern and southern China, with introduced populations in Hawaii and various locations in the US mainland.

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Subfamily

In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: subfamilia, plural subfamiliae) is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus.

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Swinhoe's pheasant

Swinhoe's pheasant (Lophura swinhoii), also known as the Taiwan blue pheasant, is a bird of the pheasant subfamily in the fowl family Phasianidae.

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Syrmaticus

The genus Syrmaticus contains the five species of long-tailed pheasants.

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Thomas Horsfield

Thomas Horsfield M.D. (May 12, 1773 – July 24, 1859) was an American physician and naturalist who worked extensively in Indonesia, describing numerous species of plants and animals from the region.

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Tibetan eared pheasant

The Tibetan eared pheasant (Crossoptilon harmani), also called Elwes' eared pheasant, is a species of bird in the family Phasianidae.

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Vietnamese pheasant

The Vietnamese pheasant, or Vietnam fireback, was formerly considered a species of gallopheasant, Lophura hatinhensis, but is now considered a variant of Edward's pheasant.

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Wattle (anatomy)

A wattle is a fleshy caruncle hanging from various parts of the head or neck in several groups of birds and mammals.

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White eared pheasant

The white eared pheasant (Crossoptilon crossoptilon) is a species of "eared pheasant" that get its name because its clouration is white and has the prominent ear tufts of the genus, not because it has white ears.

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Wildlife Conservation Society

Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) was founded in 1895 as the New York Zoological Society (NYZS) and currently works to conserve more than two million square miles of wild places around the world.

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William Beebe

William Beebe (born Charles William Beebe; July 29, 1877 – June 4, 1962) was an American naturalist, ornithologist, marine biologist, entomologist, explorer, and author.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheasant

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