silver pheasant

silver pheasant

(Ben Cao Tu Jing)

[synonyms] Pycnonotus Pycnonotus (Erya), white Pycnonotus and white Pheasant (Guo Pu's note to Erya), birds of prey (zoological Dictionary), Silver Pheasant (vertebrate taxonomy), Silver Pheasant (Chinese animal atlas? Birds).

[source] it is the meat of pheasant.

[animal morphology] Silver Pheasant

The body length is about 110 cm. The crown of the head is blue and black, and the bare part of the head is red. The mouth is short and firm, light green. The iris is brown. The male's upper body and wings are white, and covered with "V" shaped black lines, very thin in the neck, especially in the wings. The tail is very long; the central tail is almost pure white, with discontinuous wavy black lines on the base of the outer feather; the black lines on the outer tail are all over the outer feather, and gradually extend to the inner feather on the outer tail; the lower body is all bright blue black. Feet red, 4 toes, claws short and blunt. The surface of the upper body, wings and tail of the female is olive brown, the feather trunk is light, the edge of the back feather is thick, and the occipital crown is nearly black; the lower body is gray brown stained with brown; the feather trunk is white except for the center of the lower abdomen; from the lower chest to the next, each feather is decorated with wormwood like dark brown spots.

Most of them are found in mountain bamboo forest. It is distributed in Guangxi and Guangdong.

[nature and taste] 1. In the compendium, it is sweet, flat and non-toxic. "

② Yilin zuanyao: "sweet and sour, flat. "

[functions and indications] 1. Food materia medica by Wang Ying: "Buzhong Jiedu. "

② Yilin zuanyao: "Buzhong Yifei. "