Germain's peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron germaini) is a
pheasant that is endemic to Indochina. The name commemorates the French
colonial army's veterinary surgeon Louis Rudolph Germain.
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Description
The bird is a medium-sized, approximately 60 cm long,
brownish dark pheasant with finely spotted buff, short crest, bare red
facial skin, brown iris and purplish-blue ocelli on upper body
plumage and half of its tail of twenty feathers. Both sexes are similar. The
female has eighteen tail feathers and is smaller than male.
