Noun:

ஒருவிதக் கோழி, மயில் போன்ற ஒரு பட்சி,

pheasant's Usage Examples:

Silver pheasants and partridges are found in large numbers, especially in the mountains.

The pheasant derives its name from the ancient name (Phasis) of the Rion.

The pheasant does not occur in India Proper, though a white variety is found in Burma.

Prairie-dogs, jack-rabbits, crows and occasional ravens, quail, grouse, pheasants and wild turkeys are also noteworthy in a rather scant animal life.

Wild geese and ducks, grouse, partridges, snipe, woodcock, quails, widgeons and teal are plentiful all over the country, and in recent years preserves have been largely stocked with pheasants.

Prairie chickens (pinnated grouse), pheasants and wild turkeys, all very common as late as 1880, are no longer to be found save in remote and thinly-settled districts.

In Hawaii and St Helena the ring-neck appears to have been the only pheasant introduced pure, but in the former the Japanese race (P.

"The game birds have admirable representatives in the pheasant, karkavul (Phasianus coichicus, L.

Australia, he pointed out, has no woodpeckers and no pheasants, which are widely-spread Indian birds.

Gamble's quail, bob-white, grouse, English pheasants and wild turkeys are the most important game birds, and the mocking-bird is common throughout south-western New Mexico.

pheasants reared for shooting.

In eastern Tibet, on the Chinese border, varieties of the pheasant tribe abound, some of which are rare.

Synonyms:

monal, bird of Juno, ring-necked pheasant, golden pheasant, argus pheasant, genus Phasianus, Phasianus colchicus, afropavo, Phasianus, phasianid, peafowl, Chrysolophus pictus, monaul, argus, tragopan, Congo peafowl, Afropavo congensis,

Antonyms:

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