Pheasantsdetails

The collection of living pheasants belonging to the Zoological Society of London has just been enriched by the arrival of fine examples of the males of two new species. At the meeting of the society, on Thursday 24th ult. [i.e. March 1870], Mr. Sclater read a paper concerning these remarkable birds, from which we extract the following particulars:

“[...] The new Impeyan [pheasant] is at once distinguishable from the well-known Monâl, or common Impeyan pheasant, also, from the more recently-discovered Lhuys’ Impeyan, of Sechuen, by well-marked characters.

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