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pheasant
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{{Short description|Bird in family Phasianidae}}{{About|the animal|other uses}}{{distinguish|Peasant}}{{More citations needed|date=August 2020}}{{Paraphyletic group| auto = yes| image = Pheasant.jpg| image_caption = Mongolian ringneck-typecommon pheasant Male| parent = Phasianidae| includes = *Argusianus - the content below is remote from Wikipedia
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- Catreus
- Chrysolophus
- Crossoptilon
- Ithaginis
- Lophura
- Phasianus
- Polyplectron
- Pucrasia
- Rheinardia
- Syrmaticus| excludes = Rollulinae
- Lerwini
- Lophophorini
- Tetraonini
- Rhizotherini
- Perdix
- Coturnicini
- Gallini
- Pavonina
- Galloperdix
- Haematortyx
- Tropicoperdix
Etymology
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word “pheasant” ultimately comes from Phasis, the ancient name of what is now called the Rioni River in Georgia.It passed from Greek to Latin to French (spelled with an initial “f“) then to English, appearing for the first time in English around 1299.OED, pheasant,Species in taxonomic order
This list is ordered to show presumed relationships between species.- Subfamily Phasianinae
- Tribe Ithaginini
- Blood pheasant (genus Ithaginis)
- Tribe Ithaginini
- Tribe Pucrasiini
- Koklass (genus Pucrasia)
- Tribe Phasianini
- Long-tailed pheasants (genus Syrmaticus)
- Ruffed pheasants (genus Chrysolophus)
- Typical pheasants (genus Phasianus)
- Cheer pheasant (genus Catreus)
- Cheer pheasant (C. wallichi)
- Gallopheasants (genus Lophura)
- Kalij pheasant (L. leucomelanos)
- Silver pheasant (L. nycthemera)
- Imperial pheasant (L. imperialis)
- Edwards’s pheasant (L. edwardsi)
- Vietnamese pheasant (L. hatinhensis)
- Swinhoe’s pheasant (L. swinhoii)
- Salvadori’s pheasant (L. inornata)
- Malayan crestless fireback (L. erythrophthalma)
- Bornean crestless fireback (L. pyronota)
- Bornean crested fireback (L. ignita)
- Malayan crested fireback (L. rufa)
- Siamese fireback (L. diardi)
- Bulwer’s pheasant (L. bulweri)
- Eared pheasants (genus Crossoptilon)
- White eared pheasant (C. crossoptilon)
- Tibetan eared pheasant (C. harmani)
- Brown eared pheasant (C. mantchuricum)
- Blue eared pheasant (C. auritum)
- Subfamily Pavoninae
- Tribe Pavonini
- Crested argus (genus Rheinardia)
- Tribe Pavonini
- Great argus (genus Argusianus)
- Tribe Polyprectronini
- Peacock-pheasants (genus Polyplectron)
Previous classifications{{Anchor|Euplocamus}}
Euplocamus and Gennceus are older names more or less corresponding to the current Lophura.- Euplocamus was used, for example, by Hume and Marshall in their Game Birds of India, Burmah and Ceylon (1879â1881).
- Gennceus, was used, for example, by Frank Finn in Indian Sporting Birds (1915) and Game Birds of India and Asia (1911?).
Vieillot’s crested fireback > | E. vielloti > | Lophura rufa (sic) > | | L. ignita rufa |
Black-backed kalij > | E. melanonotus > | G. melanonotus > | | L. leucomelanos melanota |
white-crested kalij > | E. albocristatus> | G. albocristatus > | | L. leucomelanos hamiltoni |
Nepal kalij > | E. leucomelanus > | G. leucomelanus > | | L. leucomelanos leucomelanos |
black-breasted kalij > | E. horsfieldi > | G. horsfieldi > | | L. leucomelanos lathami |
Lineated kalij > | E. lineatus > | G. lineatus also: Burmese silver pheasant > | | L. leucomelanos lineata |
Anderson’s silver pheasant > | G. andersoni, considered hybrid of L. nycthemera and L. l. lineata > | | L. nycthemera andersoni (invalid) |
Crawfurd’s silver pheasant (or Crawford’s? ) > | E. andersoni > | L. l. lineata > | | ? |
Crawfurd’s kalij (same as C.’s silver pheasant?) > | G. andersoni >| L. leucomelanos crawfurdi |
Cuvier’s kalij > | G. cuvieri >| ? |
Oates’s kalij > | G. oatesi >| L. leucomelanos oatesi |
Whitehead’s silver pheasant > | G. whiteheadi >| ? |
Swinhoe’s kalij > | G. swinhoii >| L. swinhoii |
References
{{Reflist}}Bibliography
- Beebe, William. 1918-22. A Monograph of the Pheasants. 1st edition in 4 volumes: H. F. Witherby, London. Reprint: 1990, Dover Publications.(4 volumes bound as 2). {{ISBN|0-486-26579-X}} and {{ISBN|0-486-26580-3}}. Republished as: Pheasants: Their Lives and Homes. 2 vols. 1926. Single volume edition: New York Zoological Society, 1936.)
- Green-Armytage, Stephen. 2002. Extraordinary Pheasants.Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York. Book {{ISBN|0-8109-1007-1}}.
- Madge and McGowan, Pheasants, Partridges and Grouse {{ISBN|0-7136-3966-0}}
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