koklassn.
/ˈkəʊkləs/ The pheasant, Pucrasia macrolopha, several subspecies of which are found in the Himalayas and China and have been introduced elsewhere.
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1864 T. C. Jerdon Birds India III. 525 The Cocklass is of a rather retired and solitary disposition.
1864 T. C. Jerdon Birds India III. 524 Koklas or Kokla, in various hill dialects.
1898 Ibis Jan. 39 The Koklass was not uncommon in the forest above Gund.
1922 Blackwood's Mag. Mar. 323/2 In the woods below a kuklass crowed hoarsely.
1952 R. S. P. Bates & E. H. N. Lowther Breeding Birds Kashmir 278 The Koklas is the commonest pheasant in Kashmir.
1965 P. Wayre Wind in Reeds xv. 219 I recognised them at once as Koklass Pheasants.
1965 P. Wayre Wind in Reeds xv. 219 Koklass are high mountain birds and come from the western Himalayas and North Eastern Tibet across to Eastern and Northern China.
1974 Country Life 25 July 244/3 From a dealer's shop in London, came a pair of Koklass pheasants..[which] the Trust succeeded in breeding..in captivity.
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