ring-necked pheasant
Function: noun
Date: 1834
: a Eurasian pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) that has been widely introduced as a game bird in No. America and that has a white neck ring and an iridescent green and purplish head with red wattles around the eyes

pheas·ant
Pronunciation: 'fe-z^&nt
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural pheasant or pheasants
Etymology: Middle English fesaunt, from Anglo-French, from Old French fesan, from Latin phasianus, from Greek phasianos, from phasianos of the Phasis River, from Phasis, river in Colchis
Date: 13th century
1 : any of numerous large often long-tailed and brightly colored Old World gallinaceous birds (Phasianus and related genera of the family Phasianidae) including many raised as ornamental or game birds
2 : any of various birds resembling a pheasant