Impeyan pheasant

English

An Impeyan pheasant

Etymology

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.

Noun

Impeyan pheasant (plural Impeyan pheasants)

1. A species of pheasant, Lophophorus impejanus.
   • 1836 August 27, The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, volume 5, page 330:

     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.

   • 2003, Mary Jane West-Eberhard, Developmental Plasticity and Evolution, Oxford University Press, page 245:

     Fig. 13.3. […] Impeyan pheasants (Lophophorus impejanus)(c) bow low before the hen, then peck vigorously.

   • 2009, Ann Heinrichs, Mount Everest, Marshall Cavendish, page 36:

     One of the most beautiful species is the Impeyan pheasant, Nepal's national bird. Nepalis call it the danphe, and it is also known as the Himalayan monal.

Synonyms

• (Lophophorus impejanus): Himalayan monal, Impeyan monal

Hypernyms

• monal