Ruby Mines Silver Pheasant

The Ruby Mines Silver Pheasant (Lophura nycthemera rufipes) is taxonomically complex, consisting of many races (fifteen recognized subspecies) that differ widely in appearance. Adding to the complexity, its sibling species, the Kalij Pheasant, shows a similar degree of variation, or more, and the races of Kalij and Silver that occupy adjacent areas sometimes interbreed and resemble one another more than either of them resembles distant races of their own species. The current classification of these intermediate races, along with the division of all Kalij-Silver races into two species, is based on genetic analyses of relatedness that strongly indicate both the validity of the distinction and the location of the line between them.

The bulk of its range consists of mountainous forested areas of southern China (from Northwestern Yunnan east through Zhejiang), northern and eastern Myanmar, northern Thailand, Laos, and northern and central Vietnam.

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