argus-pheasant

Among birds the most brilliant colours are possessed by those which have developed frills, crests, and elongated tails like the humming-birds; immense tail-coverts like the peacock; enormously expanded wing-feathers, as in the argus-pheasant; or magnificent plumes from the region of the coracoids in many of the birds of paradise.

Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

"Chambers calls it simply the argus, but the more common name is the argus-pheasant," replied Louis.

Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics Oliver Optic 1859

During the morning, Achang had placed the stuffed orang-outang on a shelf the carpenter had erected at the head of the platform, with the proboscis monkey on one side, and the argus-pheasant on the other.

Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics Oliver Optic 1859

The argus-pheasant (which closet-naturalists now say is not a pheasant, but an _argus_) is peculiar to the southern parts of Asia, though the limits of its range are not well understood.

The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Mayne Reid 1850

Besides, the collected foliage of the trees, when gazed at from beneath, presents a species of ocellation, to which that of the argus-pheasant is in some way assimilated.

The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Mayne Reid 1850

When the argus-pheasant is at rest or unexcited, his plumage is neither so bright nor beautiful.

The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Mayne Reid 1850

In fact, the very beauty of their singular plumage, which makes the argus-pheasant so marked and attractive an object when side by side with other birds, is the very thing which, amid the foliage of trees, renders it so difficult to be seen.

The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Mayne Reid 1850

For some such reason then the argus-pheasant is most difficult to be seen, when once settled on his perch among the leaves and twigs of the trees.

The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Mayne Reid 1850

Several kinds of large birds flew up from his path, as he advanced; among others, the beautiful argus-pheasant, that almost rivals the peacock in the splendour of its plumage.

The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Mayne Reid 1850

The birds are the eagle, vulture, argus-pheasant, -- a singular and beautiful bird, -- peacocks, flamingoes, and swifts. "

Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics Oliver Optic 1859