Elliot's Pheasant

Syrmaticus ellioti (Swinhoe, 1872)

Elliot's Pheasant, Syrmaticus ellioti, is a pheasant of south-eastern China in the Oriental Region. It occurs in evergreen and mountain forests across several provinces in that part of the country. The male has brown and white plumage, a black throat, chestnut-brown upperparts, a white belly, white nape and wing bars, red bare facial skin, and a long whitish tail with rusty bars. Females are smaller and show rufous brown plumage, a blackish throat, a whitish belly and a less barred tail.

Order

Galliformes

Family

Phasianidae — Pheasants & Allies

Breeding range

Oriental Region: se China