(Hongbenghe, Yunnan, China; February 8, 2019.) Female is about three-quarters of the length and less than half the bulk of the male. (Corbett National Park, Uttarakhand, India; February 3, 2015.) (Baksa, Assam, India; March 21, 2014.) © Liao Tzu-Chang, Kalij Pheasant, L. l. lathami—some males of the “Black” subspecies, such as this one, share the same basic pattern as “Silver” males. “Typical” males are black with a bluish gloss on the neck, back, wing coverts, and tail, and variable amounts of elongated white or gray feathers on the throat and breast, variable white scaling on the back and rump, and a white or gray topknot. Kalij Pheasant, L. l. melanota or leucomelanos, immature male. Phasianus diverged from the genus Gallus, the genus of junglefowl and domesticated chickens, about … (Hongbenghe, Yunnan, China; February 2, 2018.) © Muhammed Asharaf Kariyil. © Elena Kreuzberg, Kalij Pheasant, L. l. hamiltonii or leucomelanos, female with “typical” medium-brown coloration. Free shipping on many items | Browse your favorite brands | affordable prices. Males sport iridescent copper-and-gold plumage, a red face, and a crisp white collar; their rooster-like crowing can be heard from up to a mile away. Some of the wing and tail feathers are brown, and some are heavily barred with black and white. Males of the highly similar races have black underparts, white upperparts that are variably covered with fine black vermiculations, medium-to-short tails (by Silver Pheasant standards) that match the upperparts, and a black topknot. These large, beautiful pheasants feature an iridescent, greenish-black plumage. Lai atļautu Verizon Media un mūsu partneriem veikt savu personas datu apstrādi, atlasiet 'Piekrītu' vai atlasiet 'Pārvaldīt iestatījumus', lai iegūtu papildinformāciju un pārvaldītu savas izvēles. (Sattal, Nainital, Uttarakhand, India; April 21, 2018.) Immature males generally resemble females in overall coloration, but do not show any of the females’ characteristic patterns. The zone of occasional or potential overlap between Kalij and Silver Pheasants (as currently understood) runs vertically on a map from western Yunnan Province in southern China south through eastern Myanmar, through northern and central Thailand. © Venkatesh V.T. © Rajaneesh Ghadi, Kalij Pheasant, L. l. lathami, female and black-plumaged male—note that this female is intermediate between those of the typical and Silver races, showing traces of the latter’s general pattern, as well as its pink legs. © Reginald David, Kalij Pheasant, L. l. hamiltonii or leucomelanos, male showing elongated white feathers on underparts. © Julien Renoult. It has been introduced and is now well established on Hawaii’s Big Island, where it can be found most readily in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, on southeastern slopes of Mauna Kea, and in the hills north of Kailua-Kona. 2003. Males vary so widely that they defy most generalizations, except that their plumage is a mix of black and white—usually with a blue gloss apparent on some of the black feathers—and their tail feathers are broad and proportionately short (relative to other pheasants). Kalij Pheasant, L. l. hamiltonii or leucomelanos, male showing typical coloration. (Kona Heights, Big Island, Hawaii; January 1, 2019.) (Keanakolu Road, Big Island, Hawaii; June 4, 2018.) © Vincent Wang, Kalij Pheasant, L. l. hamiltonii or leucomelanos, male of one of the “typical” western subspecies, but with largely jet-black coloration, lacking bluish gloss, possibly due to the angle of the light. Females of both species vary less than males, but overlap more in appearance. Kalij Pheasant, L. l. hamiltonii or leucomelanos, male. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J. https://www.birdfinding.info/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Pheasant_Kalij-Volcano0705-1.mp3, https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22679217A92807873.en. Kalij Pheasant, L. l. lathami, male with nearly all-black plumage. Kalij Pheasant, L. l. hamiltonii or leucomelanos, male and female with mostly cold grayish-brown coloration. Based on genetic evidence, some subspecies that were traditionally classified as Silver have been reclassified as Kalij. Hawaii’s Birds (Sixth Edition). © Yuren Cao, Kalij Pheasant, L. l. lathami, male with mostly black plumage but extensive white edgings on upperparts and partly gray tail. An introduced population of the western race is well established on Hawaii’s Big Island and more tenuously on Oahu. (Kaeng Krachan National Park, Phetchaburi, Thailand; December 13, 2019.) 1987. I will probably contact the D.N.R. Kalij and Silver Pheasants together comprise 24 recognized subspecies, each of which occupies a patch of southern Asia between northern Pakistan and eastern China, and south through most of Indochina to southwestern Thailand and southern Vietnam.