Kalij

The kalij is found in forests and thickets, especially in the chain of mountains foothills, from Pakistan to western Thailand. Males are rather variable relying on the taxon concerned, but all have associate at least part shiny bluish-black feather, while females ar overall chromatic. Both sexes have a blank red face and grayish legs (the latter separating  from the red-legged kalij. It is generally common and widespread, though 3 of its jap taxon (oatesi, lineata and crawfurdi) are thought-about vulnerable and moffitti is nearly unknown in the wild.[2]The kalij pheasant is closely related to the kalij and therefore the 2 ar known  to breed.[5] The placement of the taxa lineata  has been a matter of dispute, with some treating them as taxon of the kalij pheasant[2] and others as subspecies of the silver pheasant.[6] They have greyish legs as within the kalij pheasant, but their feather is nearer to that of some taxon of the kalij. Additionally, as the silver pheasant are found east of the stream|river} River, a major zoogeographic barrier, while all alternative taxon of the kalij pheasant are found west of the stream (oatesi, a subspecies of the kalij pheasant, has sometimes been rumored as occurring east of that stream,[2] but this is incorrect. Based on DNA, it was recently confirmed that lineata and crawfurdi should be thought to be taxon of the kalij pheasant.[8]Males have a total length of 63 to seventy four centimetres 25 to twenty nine in and females fifty to sixty centimetres  twenty four in divided into 2 main teams, with the first (subspecies hamiltoni, is being found in the western and central a part of the species' range. In the males of the primary group most of feather is shiny chromatic, though with white to the rump or underparts in most taxon, and in hamiltoni, the westernmost taxon,  is white (all other have a chromatic crest. In the second group, the underparts and crest are shiny chromatic, but the tail and upperparts ar white or terribly pale grey with most feathers densely vermicular with black.[2]

Females are chromatic. In some subspecies the underparts ar clearly marked in whitish and black, while in others most feathers ar pale-edged, resulting in a scaly look.[2]