. Birds and nature in natural colors : being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada . IMPEYAN PHEASANT. (I^iiphophorus impeyanus) - 5 Life-size. The Impeyan Pheasant {Lopiwphonts impcyanus) By I. N. Mitchell This beautiful wWwh is noted for tlu- color and metallic irides-cence of the males plumage, is a native of the higher and colder regions of is greatly admired hy the natives of India, who have given it the name Monalor the hirdof gold. The metallic luster of it> ].lumagc is so very marked that someauthorities have
. Birds and nature in natural colors : being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada . IMPEYAN PHEASANT. (I^iiphophorus impeyanus) - 5 Life-size. The Impeyan Pheasant {Lopiwphonts impcyanus) By I. N. Mitchell This beautiful wWwh is noted for tlu- color and metallic irides-cence of the males plumage, is a native of the higher and colder regions of is greatly admired hy the natives of India, who have given it the name Monalor the hirdof gold. The metallic luster of it> ].lumagc is so very marked that someauthorities have been led to give this bird the specific name resi)lendens. Theplumage of the males of nearly all the pheasants is (|uite as strikingly brilliant,while that of the female is much more somber. Writing of this pheasant as it is found in its forest home in the Himalayas,Mr. Wilson savs: The Monal is found on almost every hill of any elevation,from the first great ridge above the plains to the limits of forest, and in the interior,it is the most abundant of our game birds. And another enthusiastic observerwrites: There are few sightbirdsnatureinnat05chic
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