Crossoptilon

White eared pheasant

The eared pheasants ( Crossoptilon ) are a genus of the family of pheasant -like. There are a total of four species of this genus. The distribution of all species is largely in China.

Features

Eared pheasants are a genus of relatively large pheasants, whose body is elongated. The legs are short, the tail feathers are like a brush and fairly soft, almost the same hair. The body plumage is predominantly one color. Among the unusual features within the pheasant -like heard that the females do not differ in appearance from the males. Two of the species form of conspicuous ear tufts. The tail feathers consists of twenty to twenty-four tail feathers. The distribution area of each species hardly overlap.

Species

The following four species are counted to the species of pheasants ear:

• White eared pheasant (C. crossoptilon )
• Harman - eared pheasant (C. Harmani )
• Brown eared pheasant (C. mantchuricum )
• Blue eared pheasant (C. auritum )