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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