Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bird of the genus Ithaginis (which see).
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Examples
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In the highest ranges the snow-cocks, the tragopans, the blood-pheasant, and the glorious monaul or Impeyan pheasant abound.
Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916
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Not so handsome as the moonal, being small and greyish in colour on the back, is the blood-pheasant, remarkable for its blood-red streaks on the breast and its blood-red under-tail-coverts.
The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty Francis Edward Younghusband 1902
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