Mrs. Hume's Pheasant

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When to see the Mrs. Hume's Pheasant

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 6 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is February, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Mrs. Hume's Pheasant

The map shades 3 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in India.

About the Mrs. Hume's Pheasant

Mrs. Hume's pheasant, also known as Hume's pheasant or the bar-tailed pheasant, is a large forest pheasant. It is the state bird of Mizoram and Manipur. The name commemorates Mary Ann Grindall Hume, wife of the British naturalist Allan Octavian Hume, one of the key founders of the Indian National Congress.

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Easily confused with

Copper PheasantSyrmaticus soemmerringiiIt is a large pheasant with a rich coppery chestnut plumage, yellowish bill, brown iris, and red facial skin. Elliot's PheasantSyrmaticus elliotiMales are up to 80 cm (31 in) long; they are brown and white with a black throat, chestnut-brown upper parts, white belly, nape and wing bars, red bare facial skin and long rusty-barred whitish tail. Reeves's PheasantSyrmaticus reevesiiMales measure 210 cm (83 in) long and weigh 1,529 g (3.371 lb).