argus pheasant

British  

noun

1. either of two pheasants, Argusianus argus (great argus) or Rheinardia ocellata (crested argus), occurring in SE Asia and Indonesia. The males have very long tails marked with eyelike spots

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Example Sentences

Darwin was acutely aware of this and admired the modelling of the ocelli on the argus pheasant tail feathers as "more like a work of art than of nature".

From The Guardian • Feb. 10, 2012

The extreme silence was interrupted only once, by the defiant cry of an argus pheasant.

From Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 by Lumholtz, Carl

And look here, Long; the woods here are the chosen resort of the great argus pheasant.

From Middy and Ensign by Rowlandson, G. D.

"The argus pheasant does not mate with the vulture."

From The Argus Pheasant by Beecham, John Charles

The long, full “coo-ee” of the stealthy argus pheasant sounded at intervals in distant parts of the forest.

From Tales of the Malayan Coast From Penang to the Philippines by Wildman, Rounsevelle