Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.523

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**ARGUS PHEASANT**, s. This name, which seems more properly to belong to the splendid bird of the Malay Peninsula (*Argusanus giganteus*, Tem., *Pavo argus*, Lin.), is confusingly applied in Upper India to the Himālayan horned pheasant *Ceriornis* (Spp. *satyra*, and *melanocephala*) from the round white eyes or spots which mark a great part of the bird's plumage.—See remark under **MOONAUL**.

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