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Lophophorus Lhuysii
The Chinese monal or Chinese impeyan (''Lophophorus lhuysii'') is a pheasant. This monal is restricted to mountains of central China. The plumage is highly iridescent. The male has a large drooping purple crest, a metallic green head, blue bare skin around the eyes, a reddish gold mantle, bluish green feathers and black underparts. The female is dark brown with white on its throat. This is the largest of the three monals and, by mass, is one of the largest pheasants (after the turkeys and the green and Indian peafowls). Males measure in length while females measure . The mean weight is reportedly .Biddle, Tami Davis, ''Pheasants, Partridges, and Grouse : A Guide to the Pheasants, Partridges, Quails, Grouse, Guineafowl, Buttonquails, and Sandgrouse of the World (Princeton Field Guides)''. Princeton University Press (2002), The scientific name, ''lhuysii'', commemorates the French statesman Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys. Due to ongoing habitat loss and degradation, limited range and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
Albert Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (December 2, 1835 – January 30, 1919) was a French zoologist who served as a director of the Jardin d'acclimatation du Bois de Boulogne in Paris from 1865 to 1893. He was the son of the zoologist Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805-1861) and grandson of the naturalist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772-1844). Life and work Saint-Hilaire was born in Paris in a well-known family of zoologists. He graduated in 1855 and worked for his father and was involved in developing the Jardin d'acclimatation which had been founded by his father. In the 1860s it drew nearly a quarter million visitors a year. Albert became its director in 1865 at a time when its finance were very poor. He tried to convert the institution from a utilitarian one to a profit-seeking attraction. During the Paris Commune in 1870-71 the Jardin became home to 130,000 sheep and 20,000 cattle meant to feed Paris. The other animals were sent of Antwerp and Brussels by train and a few of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
