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Lophura hatinhensis

[edit] Identification

58-65 cm. Blue-black, short, shaggy white crest, red facial skin and white central tail feathers. Female grey-brown with warmer tinged wings and black tail with brown central tail feathers.

[edit] Distribution

N-central Vietnam.

[edit] Taxonomy

A monotypic species. Discovered in 1964.
A bird seen in 1990 and belived to be an Imperial Pheasant might have been a hybrid of this species with Silver Pheasant.
Some authorities no longer accept this species as the description is inadequate and variations in Edwards's Pheasant are still unresolved.

[edit] Habitat

Lowland evergreen forests.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2011. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to August 2011. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist

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