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Definition of Ring-necked pheasant
1. Noun. Common pheasant having bright plumage and a white neck ring.
Group relationships: Genus Phasianus, Phasianus
Generic synonyms: Pheasant
Terms within: Pheasant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ring-necked Pheasant
Literary usage of Ring-necked pheasant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological Society Delineated: Published by Edward Turner Bennett (1831)
"According to the author just quoted, the size of the ring-necked pheasant is
always less, the expanse of its wings smaller, and its tail shorter in ..."
2. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Introductory Chapters on by Frank Michler Chapman (1912)
"The English Pheasant has been so hybridized with the ring-necked pheasant that
it is now rare to find pure-blooded birds. Consequently either name is often ..."
3. The natural history of gallinaceous birds by William Jardine, Andrew Crichton (1834)
"THE ring-necked pheasant. Phasianus torquatus—TEMMINCK. PLATE XIII. ;'i collier;
Phasianus torquatus, Temminck, ..."
4. The Doctrine of the Unity of the Human Race Examined on the Principles of by John Bachman (1850)
"In China, the ring-necked pheasant is found among the common pheasants. A variety
very similar in marking has since every where originated among the breeds ..."
5. Ornamental, Aquatic, and Domestic Fowl, and Game Birds: Their Importation by James Joseph Nolan (1850)
"THE ring-necked pheasant Is but a variety of the common pheasant. It would be
difficult to find a preserve of any extent in England or Ireland, ..."
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