pheasant (fezant)

[Early mod. E. also phesant, fesant; Bohem. Pol. bazhant = Ru . bazhantů, fazanŭ = Hung. fátzán ) = Dan. Sw. fas an, IMG:content-0020.jpg:[graphic] φασιανός, a pheasant (abbr. of L. Phasianus avis, Gr. Φασιανός ὄρνις, the Phasian bird), neck are deep steel-blue, glancing greenish in some lights; and there is a bare red skin about the eyes. The general color is golden-brown, varying to chestnut or plain brown, on most parts intimately barred or laced with black. The Common Pheasant ( Phasianus colchicus). hen is more yellowish-brown, and only about two thirds as long. This pheasant runs into some varieties in domestication, and also cro es freely with several related species. The several other forms of the restricted genus are definitely known as to their origin and habitat, all being natives of China and Tibet and more southerly regions of Asia, as well as of Japan and many other islands included in the Oriental fauna several of these The often seen aviaries and in semi-domestication. They are such as Shaw's, P. shaw i; the Mongolian, P. mongolicus; the Yark and, P. in sign is; the For mos an, P. for mos an us; the ring-necked, P. torquatus; the Chinese ringle , P. decollatus; the Japanese green, P. versicolor; the green backed golden, P. elegans; also pheasants known as Reeves's, Wallich's, Sömmering's, Swinhoe's, Elliot's, etc. Pheasants have often been introduced in the United States, where, however, none have been thoroughly naturalized, unle the cases of P. versicolor and P. sæmmer 4440 herstiæ. The former has long been known, and is often reared in confinement. It is long-tailed and ruffed; the plumage is scarlet, orange, golden, green, etc. These phensder Thaumalea. - Green pheasant, Phasianus versicolor, of Japan, much of whose plumage is of an emerald-green. - Guiana pheasant, Ortalida motmot. - Horned pheasant, a pheasant of the genus Ceriornis; a satyr or tragopan: so called from the fleshy proce es on the head, which resemble horns. See cut under tragopan. - Impey pheasant. See Impeyan pheasant. - Kaleege or kalij pheasant, a member of the genus Euplocamus, and of that section of the genus called Gallop has is. See kaleege. - Macartney pheasant, a fireback; a pheasant of the fire backed section of Euplocamus, as E. ignitus, formerly included in a genus Macartneya. - Native pheasant of Australia, Leipoa ocellata: same as mallee - bird.-Peacock-pheasant, any pheasant of the genus Poly plectron. See cuts under calcarate and Poly plectron. Pucras pheasant. See Pucrasia.-Ring-necked pheasant, Phasianus torquatus, of China, with a white collar and buff flanks, but in general resembling the common pheasant. - Silver pheasant, a pheasant of that section of the genus Euplocamus called Nycthemerus, in which the upper parts and tail are silvery-white, more or le varied with black, but strongly contrasted with the jet-black of the under parts. The best-known is E. nycthemerus of China, whose specific name translates a native designation of the dark and light colors, as if contrasting night and day.Snow-pheasant, an eared pheasant; any species of the genus Cro optilon: so called from their habitat. Wallich's pheasant, Phasianus ( Catreus ) wallichi, the cheer. -Water-pheasant, an aquatic fowl with a long tail, or otherwise suggesting a pheasant, as the pintail duck or a merganser; specifically, Hydrophasianus chirurgus. See cut under Hydrophasianus. natives of parts of China and Tibet. cut