Père Armand David (1826-1900), the Lazarist missionary living in China from 1858-1874, sent many specimens of this pheasant to Paris, obtained from the wooded slopes on the mountains at Mou-pin in North China. They were first discovered by P. de Theisant Dabry, French Consul at Hangchow, China, and named after the French zoologist, Albert St. Hilaire Geoffroy (1835-1919).
The male depicted lifesize is in the foreground with the female in the distance.
DISTRIBUTION: Himalayas from northern India east to southern Tibet, west and central China and northeastern Burma. The birds depicted belong to the subspecies Ithaginus cruentus geoffroyi, Geoffroy's Blood Pheasant, which is limited to western Szechwan and southeastern Xizang