Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pheasant; specifically, an impeyan, or pheasant of the genus Lophopherus, and especially L. impeyanus. See cut under
Impeyan pheasant .
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- noun brilliantly colored pheasant of southern Asia
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In the highest ranges the snow-cocks, the tragopans, the blood-pheasant, and the glorious monaul or Impeyan pheasant abound.
Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916
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