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Chinese pheasant can refer to any pheasant species originally native to China. Usually it means either: Common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) which including the ring-necked pheasants. This usage is most common in the United States where the bird is widely naturalized. Golden pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus).
The golden pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus), also known as the Chinese pheasant, and rainbow pheasant, is a gamebird of the order Galliformes (gallinaceous birds) and the family Phasianidae . The genus name is from Ancient Greek khrusolophos , "with golden crest", and pictus is Latin for "painted" from pingere , "to paint".
The common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus), ring-necked pheasant, or blue-headed pheasant, a bird in the pheasant family (Phasianidae). The genus name comes from Latin phasianus 'pheasant'. The species name colchicus is Latin for 'of Colchis ' (modern day Georgia ), a country on the Black Sea where pheasants became known to Europeans. [ 2 ]
The subfamily includes true pheasants, tragopans, grouse, turkey and similar birds. [1] Although this subfamily was considered monophyletic and separated from the partridges , francolins , and Old World quails ( Perdicinae ) till the early 1990s, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] molecular phylogenies have shown that this placement is paraphyletic.
Lady Amherst's pheasant (Chrysolophus amherstiae) is a bird of the order Galliformes and the family Phasianidae. The genus name is from Ancient Greek khrusolophos , "with golden crest". The English name and amherstiae commemorates Sarah Amherst , who was responsible for sending the first specimen of the bird to London in 1828. [ 2 ]
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Syrmaticus Wagler, 1832 (long-tailed pheasants) Chrysolophus Gray, 1834 (ruffed pheasants) Phasianus Linnaeus, 1758 (true pheasants) Catreus Cabanis, 1851 (cheer pheasant) Crossoptilon Hodgson, 1838 (eared pheasants) Lophura Fleming, 1822 non Gray, 1827 non Walker, 1856 (gallopheasants) Phasianinae "Nonerectile clade" Tribe Pavonini
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