White-crested Kalij Pheasant

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White-crested Kalij Pheasant
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Galliformes
Family: Phasianidae
Genus: Lophura
Species: L. leucomelanos
Subspecies: L. l. hamiltonii
Trinomial name
Lophura leucomelanos hamiltonii
(Gray,JE, 1829)

The White-crested Kalij Pheasant (Lophura leucomelanos hamiltonii) is one sub-species of the Kalij Pheasant (Lophura leucomelanos), western most subspecies of Lophura leucomelanos; western Himalayas in parts of northern India, as well some areas of western Nepal and northern Pakistan.