A History of Indian Medical Literature v2.c29.315

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⁶⁵⁶ Cf. Su.Sū.46.105. P. Rāy and H.N. Gupta (1965): the peacock pheasant. P.V. Sharma: peacock pheasant. Gulabkunverba: common mynah. R.K. Sharma and Bhagwan Dash: idem. MW and PW: a kind of pheasant. See on the two subspecies of *Polyplectron bicalcaratum* (Linnaeus), the peacock-pheasant: S. Ali and S.D. Ripley 2, 120–122. A genus *Chalcurus* is not described by S. Ali and S.D. Ripley. K.N. Dave (1985: 269–270, 305) regards jīvañjīvaka as denoting the peacock-pheasant, the pheasant-tailed jaçcana, *Hydrophasianus chirurgus* (Scopoli) (see S. Ali and S.D. Ripley 2, 199–200), and, in later literature, all the Himalayan pheasants.