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Bornean peacock-pheasant

(Polyplectron schleiermacheri)

Description

The pheasant is up to 50 cm long,rufous brown and black spotted,with an elongated crest and nape feathers,black below and bare red skin around bluish iris eye.The breast sides are metallic blue-green,bordering the white throat and central upper breast.Its twenty-two tail feathers are decorated with large blue-green ocelli,which may be spread fan-like in display.The female is smaller and duller brown than the male.It has a brown iris and no spurs on its feet.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum:
Class: Aves
Order:Galliformes
Family:Phasianidae
Genus:Polyplectron
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