Impeyan pheasant

English right|thumb|An Impeyan pheasant Etymology After English natural historian Mary Impey Lady Mary Impey, who established a menagerie in Calcutta. Named in 1790 by ornithologist John Latham (ornithologist) John Latham, who described the species from a preserved corpse from the menagerie.2016, Caroline Grigson, Menagerie: The History of Exotic Animals in England. Noun A species of pheasant, Lophophorus impejanus species. en August 27 1836 The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 5 https://books.google.com.au/books?id=yFkFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA330&dq=%22Impeyan+pheasant%22%7C%22Impeyan+pheasants%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi4_v3J5rnaAhVK5oMKHahWBwIQ6AEIQjAF#v=onepage&q=%22Impeyan%20pheasant%22%7C%22Impeyan%20pheasants%22&f=false 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. en 2003 Mary Jane West-Eberhard Developmental Plasticity and Evolution https://books.google.com.au/books?id=iBkQyA2PkxEC&pg=PA245&dq=%22Impeyan+pheasant%22%7C%22Impeyan+pheasants%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi4_v3J5rnaAhVK5oMKHahWBwIQ6AEINzAD#v=onepage&q=%22Impeyan%20pheasant%22%7C%22Impeyan%20pheasants%22&f=false 245 w:Oxford University Press Fig. 13.3.Impeyan pheasants (Lophophorus impejanus)(c) bow low before the hen, then peck vigorously. en 2009 Ann Heinrichs Mount Everest w:Marshall Cavendish https://books.google.com.au/books?id=DyDrE7Q7rFoC&pg=PA36&dq=%22Impeyan+pheasant%22%7C%22Impeyan+pheasants%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi4_v3J5rnaAhVK5oMKHahWBwIQ6AEI1wEwIA#v=onepage&q=%22Impeyan%20pheasant%22%7C%22Impeyan%20pheasants%22&f=false 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 en Himalayan monal, en Impeyan monal Hypernyms en monal References en eponyms en Fowls