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🪶 Golden Pheasant

Pheasants & Partridge · breed reference

THE GATEWAY ORNAMENTAL — a scarlet, gold and orange cock with a cape he flares sideways across his own face, hardy in almost any US climate, cheap, calm, and prolific. The bird of Chinese art (the *jinji*, and part of the fenghuang's plumage); the hen is a plain brown bird nobody photographs. THE PIN, read from both entries: GOLDEN AND LADY AMHERST'S HYBRIDIZE FREELY AND THE HYBRIDS ARE FERTILE — decades of casual mixing means many “pure” birds of both species carry the other's blood, and if you care about either one, house them where they cannot reach each other and buy from someone who does the same.