"Barb Meserve" wrote: > It was the size and shape of a Ringnecked Pheasant, but had a white cap > and throat, with a black line, similiar to a Chukars, (but thicker and a > tighter loop) going through the eyes and around to the neck. It didn't have > the big fleshy red thing on the side of the face, but did have a fleshy red > eye ring, similiar to a Blackbilled Cuckoo. It's body, in the evening > sunlight had a beautiful iridescence to it. Barb, It sounds like you have seen a male Reeves Pheasant from Asia. Graham Egerton and I found one one year at the Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant on a Baltimore Harbor Christmas Bird Count. Gene Scarpulla Towson, Maryland gscarp@erols.com