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The silver pheasant (Lophura nycthemera) is a species of pheasant found in forests, mainly in mountains, of mainland Southeast Asia and eastern and southern China. It is introduced on Victoria Island in Nahuel Huapi Lake, Neuquén, Argentina and on Vancouver Island, Canada. The male is black and white, while the female is mainly brown.
1979 - Paint It Wild, written and directed by John Lackie for CBC. Screened at the Royal Ontario Museum; 1988 - One Half Mile Down, National Geographic, produced by Emory Kristof, on the underwater research carried out as The Beebe Project. Loates was the first artist to descend 1 3/ 4 miles in a submersible, to see and paint deep-sea life.
Finches and Bamboo (11th century) by Emperor Huizong of Song by Puxian, a Beile of the Qing dynasty. Gongbi (simplified Chinese: 工笔; traditional Chinese: 工筆; pinyin: gōng bǐ; Wade–Giles: kung-pi) is a careful realist technique in Chinese painting, the opposite of the interpretive and freely expressive xieyi (寫意 'sketching thoughts') style.
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The painting is covered by a layer of yellowed varnish Half-figure of a Bearded Man with Beret: c. 1653: Oil on canvas: 78 x 66.5: National Gallery, London: 227: Aristotle with a Bust of Homer: 1653: Oil on canvas: 141.8 x 134.4: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: 228: The painting was larger at both top and bottom. The original proportions ...
Male Reeves's pheasant, green pheasant, Lady Amherst's pheasant and golden pheasant (front to back). The Reeves's pheasant is a hardy bird and is able to tolerate both hot and cold weather. They prefer higher ground for nesting. The female lays a clutch of 7–14 eggs in April or May; the incubation period is 24–25 days.
The Bornean crested fireback (Lophura ignita) is a medium-sized forest pheasant from Borneo and the Bangka Belitung Islands. [2] It is the type species of the genus Lophura. Prior to 2023, it was referred to as simply the crested fireback as the Malayan crested fireback (L. rufa) was lumped with this species, though both have since been split. [3]
Chrysolophus is a genus of the pheasant family of birds. The genus name is from Ancient Greek khrusolophos, "with golden crest". [1] These are species which have spectacularly plumaged males. The golden pheasant is native to western China, and Lady Amherst's pheasant to Tibet and westernmost China, but both have