Impeyan pheasant

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.[1]

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

References

1. 2016, Caroline Grigson, Menagerie: The History of Exotic Animals in England.