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'''Alternative names: Mirror Pheasant; Rothschild's Peacock-Pheasant'''
 
'''Alternative names: Mirror Pheasant; Rothschild's Peacock-Pheasant'''
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[[Image:MountainPeacockPheasant-001.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Male<br />Photo by {{user|wengchun|wengchun}}<br />[[Malaysia]], March 2017]]
 
;[[:Category:Polyplectron|Polyplectron]] inopinatum
 
;[[:Category:Polyplectron|Polyplectron]] inopinatum
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[[Image:Mountain_peacock_pheasant.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by {{user|Dave+B|Dave B}}<br>Location:  Fresir's Hill, [[Malaysia]]]]
 
 
==Identification==
 
==Identification==
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65cm. Blackish brown, long graduated tail feathers. Both sexes are similar. Male has metallic blue ocelli on upperparts, green ocelli on tail of twenty feathers and two spurs on legs. Female has black ocelli on upperparts, unspurred legs and tail of eighteen feathers. The female is smaller and duller than male.
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[[Image:KKK0247a.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Female<br />Photo by {{user|996sps|996sps}}<br />Bukit Tinggi, Pahang, [[Malaysia]], July 2013]]
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Male c. 65 cm (25½ in); female c. 46 cm (18 in)<br />
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Blackish brown, long graduated tail feathers<br />
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'''Male'''
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*20 tail feathers
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*2 Spurs on legs
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*Metallic blue [[Dictionary_M-O#O|ocelli]] on upperparts, green ocelli on tail<br />
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'''Female''' : smaller and duller than male
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*18 tail feathers
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*Black ocelli on upperparts
 
==Distribution==
 
==Distribution==
 
[[Malay Peninsula]].
 
[[Malay Peninsula]].
 
==Taxonomy==
 
==Taxonomy==
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A monotypic species.
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This is a [[Dictionary_M-S#M|monotypic]] species<sup>[[#References|[1]]]</sup>.
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====Molecular divergence====
 
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mtDNA cytochrome b and D-loop as well as the nuclear ovomucoid intron G data confirms that this species belongs to a clade together with [[Bronze-tailed Peacock-Pheasant]], and mainland species [[Germain's Peacock-Pheasant]] and [[Grey Peacock-Pheasant]] (Kimball et al. 2001). The molecular data suggests - though not with high confidence - that this species diverged from mainland stock earlier than the Bronze-tailed Peacock-Pheasant. This is quite spurious, since its biogeography and derived plumage, and the fact that it is a peninsular mountain endemic indicate it is derived from a fairly small founder population; this would confound molecular analyses. What seems clear is that the present species evolved from mainland Southeast Asian stock, probably during the Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene (3.6-1 mya). The unique pattern of wings and tail thus is, contrary to long-held opinion, an autapomorphy, and the southern species of this clade - formerly separated in the genus Chalcurus - are probably not each other's closest relatives.
 
 
==Habitat==
 
==Habitat==
 
Montane forests.
 
Montane forests.
 
==Behaviour==
 
==Behaviour==
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The diet includes berries, beetles and ants.
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The diet includes berries, spiders, beetles and ants.
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==Gallery==
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Click on photo for larger image
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<gallery>
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Image:Mountain_peacock_pheasant.jpg|Photo by {{user|Dave+B|Dave B}}<br />Fraser's Hill, [[Malaysia]]<!--EDITORS: this picture doesn't appear in the Gallery, so retained on article for completeness-->
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</Gallery>
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==References==
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#{{Ref-Clements6thAug16}}#Avibase
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#Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved May 2017)
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{{ref}}
 
==External Links==
 
==External Links==
 
{{GSearch|Polyplectron+inopinatum}}
 
{{GSearch|Polyplectron+inopinatum}}
 
[[Category:Birds]][[Category:Polyplectron]]
 
[[Category:Birds]][[Category:Polyplectron]]

Revision as of 20:53, 22 May 2017

Alternative names: Mirror Pheasant; Rothschild's Peacock-Pheasant

Male
Photo by wengchun
Malaysia, March 2017
Polyplectron inopinatum

Identification

Female
Photo by 996sps
Bukit Tinggi, Pahang, Malaysia, July 2013

Male c. 65 cm (25½ in); female c. 46 cm (18 in)
Blackish brown, long graduated tail feathers
Male

  • 20 tail feathers
  • 2 Spurs on legs
  • Metallic blue ocelli on upperparts, green ocelli on tail

Female : smaller and duller than male

  • 18 tail feathers
  • Black ocelli on upperparts

Distribution

Malay Peninsula.

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species[1].

Habitat

Montane forests.

Behaviour

The diet includes berries, spiders, beetles and ants.

Gallery

Click on photo for larger image

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2016. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2016, with updates to August 2016. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Avibase
  3. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved May 2017)

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