Mrs. Hume's Pheasant

Mrs Hume's pheasant, also known as Hume's pheasant or the bar-tailed pheasant, is a large forest pheasant up to 90cm long. It has a greyish-brown head, bare red facial skin, chestnut-brown plumage, a yellowish bill, a brownish-orange iris, white wingbars and metallic blue neck feathers. The male has a long greyish-white tail barred black and brown (Wikipedia, general species account).

The female lays three to twelve creamy-white eggs in nests of leaves, twigs and feathers. The diet is mainly vegetation. The name commemorates Mary Ann Grindall Hume, wife of the British naturalist Allan Octavian Hume, and the bird is the state bird of Mizoram and Manipur in India (Wikipedia, general species account).