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Eared pheasant
Genus of birds From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Eared pheasants are pheasants from the genus Crossoptilon in the family Phasianidae.
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Species
Established by Brian Houghton Hodgson in 1838, the genus contains four species:[1]
The name Crossoptilon is a combination of the Greek words krossoi, meaning "fringe" and ptilon, meaning "feather"— a name Hodgson felt particularly applied to the white eared pheasant "distinguished amongst all its congeners by its ample fringe-like plumage, the dishevelled quality of which is communicated even to the central tail feathers".[2] All are large, sexually monomorphic and found in China.[3]
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