EditorialPhasianus colchicus, Print, The common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) is a bird in the pheasant family (Phasianidae). The genus name comes from Latin phasianus, "pheasant". The species name colchicus is Latin for "of Colchis" (modern day Georgia), a co...
EditorialPhasianus colchicus, Print, The common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) is a bird in the pheasant family (Phasianidae). The genus name comes from Latin phasianus, "pheasant". The species name colchicus is Latin for "of Colchis" (modern day Georgia), a co...
EditorialCommon pheasant, Phasianus colchicus (Phasianus torquatus). Handcoloured lithograph from Georg Friedrich Treitschke's Gallery of Natural History, Naturhistorischer Bildersaal des Thierreiches, Liepzig, 1842.
EditorialCommon pheasant, Phasianus colchicus. Handcoloured engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Charles d'Orbigny's Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle (Dictionary of Natural History), Paris, 1849.
EditorialPheasant, Phasianus colchicus. Handcoloured engraving on steel by Fournier after a drawing by Edouard Travies from Richard's "New Edition of the Complete Works of Buffon," Pourrat Freres, Paris, 1837.