Hoogerwerf's pheasant
| Hoogerwerf's pheasant | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Galliformes |
| Family: | Phasianidae |
| Genus: | Lophura |
| Species: | L. inornata
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| Subspecies: | L. i. hoogerwerfi
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| Trinomial name | |
| Lophura inornata hoogerwerfi (Chasen, 1939)
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Hoogerwerf's pheasant (Lophura inornata hoogerwerfi), also known as the Aceh pheasant or Sumatran pheasant, is a medium-sized, up to 55 centimetres (22 in) long, bird of the family Phasianidae. The male is a crestless bluish black pheasant with bare red facial skin, short tail and grey legs. The female is a rufous brown bird with a dark bluish grey legs and short dark tail.
Its appearance resembles, and it is usually considered as a subspecies of the Salvadori's pheasant. The female is different from the latter for having darker brown, lack of buff mottling and plainer plumage.
An Indonesian endemic, this little-known pheasant inhabits to mid-mountain forests of Gunung Leuser National Park in Aceh province. Previously known only from two female specimens, it was recently discovered in a market in Medan, North Sumatra.
The name commemorates the Dutch ornithologist and taxidermist Andries Hoogerwerf.
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- Gallopheasants
- Subspecies
- Birds of Sumatra
- Endemic fauna of Sumatra
- Birds described in 1939
- Taxa named by Frederick Nutter Chasen