Impeyan pheasant

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A species of pheasant, Lophophorus impejanus.
    — The Impeyan pheasant is an example in point : adapted for regions where the temperature is at the most only moderate, and often at a low degree, this noble bird soon dies when taken from its alpine home into the burning lowlands of India; and hence arises one of the difficulties in the way of our obtaining living specimens in Europe.

词形变化

Impeyan pheasants plural

词源

After English natural historian Lady Mary Impey, who established a menagerie in Calcutta. Named in 1790 by ornithologist John Latham, who described the species from a preserved corpse from the menagerie.
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